Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tempest in a c-cup? Definitely, said White House Aide Hamilton Jordan. Nothing more, agreed Egyptian officials. Yet the story filled innumerable inches in major U.S. newspapers. As reported by Washington Post tattletale Sally Quinn in an article on the social scene in the capital, it all happened at a party tossed by Barbara Walters for the Israeli and Egyptian ambassadors to the U.S. When Jordan settled down to dinner, according to Quinn, he turned to Amal Ghorbal, the Egyptian ambassador's wife, "gazed at [her] ample front, pulled at her elastic bodice and was prompted to say, loudly...
...week issued an updated edition of its Dictionary of Occupational Titles, used primarily by employment counselors. The 5-lb. catalogue defines, and assigns a nine-digit index number to each of 20,000 job titles, including such esoterica as sword swallower (159.647-010), rock breaker (770.687-034) and brassiere-cup-mold cutter...
Among the more unusual suggestions are a 24 karat, gold-plated hard hat that can be engraved with the lucky owner's name and costs a mere $175. Or the book boats a single cup and saucer painted with a very abstract design by the Russian/French artist Kandinsky, which sells...
...stud football-playing buddies, but by God, she should give as good as she gets, and the film never captures the uneasy jocularity that is a necessary part of sexual tension in the South. Even though Clayburgh's daddy supposedly owns the team. She melts like a dime cup of ice cream at 10 a.m. on a July day in Macon...
...build a new state capital. The last and longest section covers some wintry months spent in Eagle, a tiny settlement on the Yukon River just west of the Canadian border-"a community deeply compressed in its own isolation," McPhee writes, with cabin-fever feuds so sharp that "a cup of borrowed sugar can go off like a grenade...