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Word: briars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...long I don't know any of these people today, except from the newspapers. But I bought myself a dress so I could come. This is my last time out, but it's been a wonderful climax for me. Now I can go back to my briar patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Far from the Briar Patch | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

Once upon a time, little girls agrowing used to think dreamily of the day they would matriculate at Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr or Sweet Briar. But with the population explosion, those colleges, can no longer take care of everyone, and some girls have to settle for less. In Los Angeles, for example, there is the Pink Pussycat College of Striptease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: M. I. Tease | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

...Lynchburg, Va.. girls from all-white Sweet Briar women's college picketed drugstores with segregated lunch counters, as six other white and Negro students, including two white girls from similarly fashionable Randolph Macon, began the second week of 30-day trespassing sentences for earlier sit-ins at the counters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: To the Jails | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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