Word: dears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absolute tea-fiend. Get me some immediately, or else I shall have to inject it into my veins." (Take that damn foreigner down to Harlem.) A refined version of the feline eyes, two-coloured hair, the endearingly bumpy nose projected on the movie-screen. The Oxford accent, my dear, of course unmistakable: but not an affected one. Rather the natural tones of the Oxonian graduate, the eternal college boy who likes to reminisce affectionately but unpretentiously about his undergraduate days...
...Elmer Rounds: "It was our hope to reach the middleaged, middle-class suburbanite who didn't like the bus ride his kid was taking but who couldn't vote for Wallace on other principles." Jackson picked up other support by endorsing the $5.5 billion space-shuttle project, dear to the state's aerospace workers, standing as tall as anyone for U.S. support of Israel and urging a strong national defense program. If the combined Jackson and Wallace votes are a barometer of the state's conservatives, they are a majority...
...Friend Corliss Lament sent round his suggestions for summer reading in Maine-the Apology, Crito, Phaedo, etc. "I haven't told you about Groton and dear Dwight," young Anne Morrow writes to her sister from Smith College. "He was so sweet and dear and such fun." With a certain pleasant gush, these fragments evoke an age-the long-gone innocence of growing up in Englewood, N.J., in an atmosphere of affluent rectitude and Jamesian family tours of the Continent...
...statement, the steering committee declared. "The Graduate Students Union has not received any response from Dean Jones to the union's four demands presented last week. Dean Dunlop's 'Dear Vic' letter, released this morning, is misleading, unclear and inadequate," adding that "in neither form or content is it a response to the union's demands...
More and more secretaries, like airline stewardesses, are rebelling against being viewed as objects of vicarious sexual pleasure (or being called "dear" and "honey" by men in the office). Linda Lervold, a secretary at a Manhattan ad agency, complains about an office "hotpants party" at which women employees were invited to "show their wares." A N.O.W. member, Miss Lervold attended wearing distinctly unsexy culottes and gave the host, a vice president, a pair of men's hot pants, don't think anybody at the party got the point," she laments...