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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Forty years ago, when people still cried at tearjerkers, it would have made a great movie. A cheeky kid becomes the country's top box office draw, goes off to war, comes back and discovers that nobody loves a 30-year-old brat. He spends too much, drinks too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Andy Hardy Comes Home | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

That anyone survived the first three games of this mostly cold and rainy Series was mildly remarkable. Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, long famous for sitting coatless through a heavy frost when prime-time television commitments are at stake, proved that he was equally up to the challenge in a mid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pops Go the Pirates | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

The phenomenon is still a fledgling fad elsewhere. In Boston and Atlanta, many department store buyers have adopted a wait-and-see attitude and are limiting supply. "They're really horrible," says one Boston department store manager, "and normally things that don't look good don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Saggy Slacks Make a Debut | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Roomier pants may catch on as more women opt for comfort over the tight, almost girdled feeling. Says Lorelei Davis, whose Fiorucci store in Chicago sells baggy pants in Day-Glo colors and a variety of fabrics: "Fashion is a reaction, and women aren't that comfortable in tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Saggy Slacks Make a Debut | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

"I had to go to the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace in New York. But I refused, it was humiliating for me to take part in a spectacle Like that. I was a formalist, a representative of an antinational direction in music. My music was banned, and now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Music Was His Final Refuge | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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