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Word: clothe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...century Westerners. Instead, they turn the conventions of the Western into a series of burlesque gags. Candice spends half her time trying to seduce the virginal Strauss-she delightedly rips off piece after piece of her disintegrating dress before eventually changing into a Raquel Welch 2000 Years B.C. wash cloth-only to resist the eager lad when he finally gets it up by demurring with a sincere, "Honus, tell me, do you really mean it?" Hell, lady, you don't go around shoving your boobs in the poor kid's face and then start preaching situation ethics...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: FilmsCowboys and Vietnamese | 1/29/1971 | See Source »

...took me 15 hours to type a 10-page paper. My room in Barnard was slightly larger than my bathroom in Adams House, and I twisted felt flowers around the exposed pipes. Tried to hide the chipping ceiling with an enormous yellow sunflower. Disguised the radiator with Marimekko cloth. And by reading period none of it mattered; all was covered with papers and clothing and dust. And the dust was impossibly threatening...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Nostalgia If It's Cold and Snowy and Miserable Out There, It Must Be Reading Period | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

There was a third girl who proved to be distinguished as a fan. Maryann had reproduced Bobby's face on a piece of cloth and had sewn it in her panties...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Clearasil's Man of the Year: Bobby Baby | 10/30/1970 | See Source »

...flags at all Boston police stations and around most of the city are at half-mast today as slain patrolman Walter Schroeder is buried at Ever-green cemetery in West Roxbury at noon. Policemen arrive at the funeral wearing black cloth ribbons over their regular badges, and many will continue to wear the ribbons through the week...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs and Michael B. Mccarthy, S | Title: When the trial for these suspects ends, people are going to be very bewildered about... 'why?' | 10/6/1970 | See Source »

East Germany suffers no fabric shortage, but a conversion to the midi would cost thousands of production hours in the textile mills if they had to turn out sufficient cloth to drape the collective calf. It is one Communist conspiracy that American men might welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Midis Verboten | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

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