Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weekend at Windsor Castle, Sarah confided, requires a suitcase of clothes?riding habit for morning, day dress for lunch, skirt for tea, long dress for dinner. A bit of formality too: she claims she always calls Charles...
...digs at Chevening House in Kent, still under renovation. Charles has both his lodgings and office in his third-floor palace apartment overlooking St. James's Park. A few years back, Designer David Hicks redecorated the suite, but Charles has added his own touches and a good bit of clutter. The bathroom is hung with favorite cartoons, the sitting room crammed with memorabilia from his journeys. There are books on history, art and archaeology, as well as sound and video equipment, including a video tape recorder that he uses to replay and critique his appearances...
...relating to his own protest generation. I think you are a bit late with this question. I suspect my generation has now passed through its anti-Establishment and protest phase and is becoming more and more "established" every day. You forget how old I am! Insofar as anyone is a product of his generation, I think I can identify with some aspects of my generation. Inevitably there are others with which...
...temper of the times has moved them: they see the rattletrap slums as they are driven in from the suburbs; they hear their young managers, products of the 60s, speak of dreams unfulfilled; they listen to their wives and daughters tell The men at the top in business- a bit self-conscious that theirs is a white, male domain- are trying to respond. Most are struggling with ways to hire, their train and capital and promote more intellect to women, revive the blacks and cities. Almost Hispanics. all are Some are attempting, trying in to use one way or another...
...prix fixe seemed a bit steep, but the menu sounded impressive enough-breast of capon cordon bleu, pommes rissolées, bombe glacée-and the comic booked for the evening was strictly top banane: Jimmy Carter. For the first time in the 64 years that the White House Correspondents' Association has been inviting Presidents to its annual all-in-fun dinner, however, the incumbent did not show or send his wife or his Vice President to fill...