Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a stoppage could bring the economy to a wrenching halt, the Carter Administration has made clear that it will move quickly to end any strike, probably by invoking the Taft-Hartley Act. That would require a 90-day cooling-off period, during which the truckers would be under court order to stay...
...been troubled by problems, from recalls and suits over the safety of earlier Pintos to a widely publicized shareholders' suit against himself (since thrown out of court) to a messy separation from his second wife Christina. Since an angina attack hospitalized him three years ago, Ford has aged, and has paid close attention to setting up a succession by trusted subordinates and family members...
...1950s she was rather like Omai, the noble savage whom Captain Cook brought back from Tahiti to the court of George III. America loved Grandma Moses as the representative of natural virtue-the ambassadress of a past that was al ready being sentimentalized on an industrial scale. Her America of checkered farmhouses, old oaken buckets, barn-raising parties, whirring buggy wheels, and quilting bees was not the America of the Korean War, the TV-quiz scandals, the McCarthy terror and the Detroit assembly lines. But it had been a real place, and Grandma Moses not only knew it well...
Successive Supreme Court decisions have left the issue of pornography hopelessly muddled, but it is difficult to imagine a community whose standards would be offended by Nin's tales. Read in the supposedly liberated '70s, these pictures from a stricter age take on a quaint charm. They are reminders that there was a time of garters and romantic assignations, an age when sex delighted not because it was healthy but because it was naughty...
Rosenthal promised a court fight in the issue. "You can expect 200 suits," one from each of the pinball operators in the city," he warned the council. Ralph Hoagland, owner of 1001 Plays, said later he would go to court to get the square footage provision struck down...