Word: combed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skins tracked the mammoth through the taiga-the deep silent forests of pines and birches. Nomadic tribesmen pushed up from the south, grazing their cattle and roaming on. Then the thunder of horses reverberated across the steppes, bearing the predatory banners of Genghis Khan. Chinese prospectors ranged northward to comb the wilderness for ginseng roots, the source of miraculous cures. The land echoed with the sad clanking of the chains that fettered the czars' prisoners, and then with the sighs of all those thousands who continued to be banished, body and soul, after the Bolshevik Revolution. "How many mysteries...
Dave's neighborhood sprouted Wallace signs in 1968; the man with his greased hair looked like a steel worker, tough and uncompromising. They still grease down here; both the fathers and sons; flat-tops with fenders, massive Presley waves, or just a straight comb back. They drag race; '65 Chevies and second-hand Firebirds instead of the old '57 Chevy. They take pills and smoke a little dope and a few drop acid; but most of all they drink. They drink in bars or in alleys; beer after beer; shaking it hard to get a better lift. They wear Italian...
MIAMI, that lotus land of sun, sand, surf and swimming pools, is also a city of golf and mah-jongg, of Shecky Greene and Liza Minnelli-a high-rolling town where lacquered young ladies comb the bars along Collins Avenue through the long, hot winter, trading favors for bread. It is an unlikely kind of football town. Who thinks of apple-cheeked American youth playing a fast game of touch on Jackie Gleason Drive or Arthur Godfrey Road? Who would expect hoarse cries of "Dee-fense! Dee-fense!" from a bathing-suit salesman dressed in a robin...
...Marsha Miles, a black sophomore at Yale, remembers what it was like to have a white roommate as a freshman: "I was a curiosity to her. She used to come into the bathroom to watch me comb my hair." After a year of that, Marsha decided to live with five other black women-and no whites. "It's no fun being a living experiment for somebody," she explains...
Dillard explains that Black English first began to take form during the period immediately before the Atlantic slave trade. As Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and English traders began to comb the coasts of Africa looking for chattel, a number of Africans began to incorporate European words into their vocabulary. When the great slave trade began, blacks from many different language groups were thrown together in ships and packed off to the New World. Communication between people who spoke diverse African languages was impossible until the growth of a common language based on the one language to which all the slaves that...