Word: chick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have managed to raise a fine family of four adopted youngsters. Linda is a bright, smashing 28-year-old blonde who is working at becoming a documentary film maker. Tony, 27, recently got married, is a Harvard Law graduate working at 20th Century-Fox. Nora, 21, is a lively chick who is a secretary at Manhattan's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Kelly, 21, is a Navy seaman, freshly graduated from the Underwater Warfare School in San Diego...
...return, President George Meany made no fewer than three first-day orations staunchly supporting L.B.J.'s conduct of the Viet Nam war. Calling labor "neither hawk nor dove nor chick en," Meany declared: "We recognize the fact that our country has a commitment, a job to do. We support the President of the United States." Paul Hall of the Seafarers Union sailed headon into J. William Fulbright. "If the Senator from Arkansas," Hall growled, "would do just 10% for the Arkansas Negro as he has said or bled for the Viet Cong, not only would Arkansas be a hell...
...trying to compete with the commercial networks, General Manager Day concentrates on "the events that don't always make headlines or are reported with a two-minute film clip sandwiched into a news show." This programming strategy is sufficient proof that ingenuity and talent can make a swinging chick out of that little old lady, Public...
...from a probing sketch of Dorsey, Simon provides little that is fresh on such familiar figures as Miller, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington, but he gives appropriate recognition to some of the brilliant though now largely forgotten ensembles of the period: the sizzling band headed by tiny, hunchbacked Drummer Chick Webb, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, which triumphed at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in a 1937 battle of the bands with Goodman's group; the lush, colorfully textured Claude Thornhill band; the showmanlike Jimmie Lunceford unit, whose buoyant two-beat style influenced such latter-day bands as Billy...
...cultural scene, she has turned her critical eye on medical care in Viet Nam, hippies, even space shots. Perhaps her most attractive gift is her ability to handle any story without appearing to be obtrusively feminine. As Aline puts it, intelluptuously: "I'm a woman but not a chick...