Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kick. "I don't usually get a cold," she says in a voice borrowed from an emery board. "I have leprosy." Her chief concern in life is finding some place to play doctor with Junior Phillips, her six-year-old boy friend. Like other little girls, Edith Ann dresses up-but she puts a doll under her dress so that she looks pregnant...
Most professional motocross racers are young men in their late teens and early 20s. Tall, thin and lithe, they straddle their bikes with a sure-fired brashness made possible only by youth. In the pits before the races they dress slowly as the smell of gasoline wafts through the air and the drone of the motorbikes drowns any conversation. With long hair often past their shoulders, they are indistinguishable from their fans. Voluptuous young girls run through the pits, their bosoms overhanging as they reach out with the screwdrivers and wrenches that are requested by drivers' mechanics. Akin...
...middle-class bustle) and Barry Goldwater (who arrived and departed via helicopter). For Tricia, a highlight of the day was awarding the trophy to Winner Roger McCluskey, who then planted a hearty kiss on her cheek. "She does look nice," admitted a model, admiring Tricia's sleeveless print dress. "That's something I'd wear to church. If I went to church...
...surprisingly accurate long-range weather predictions and other distinctive features, the 156-year-old Farmers' Almanac has always carried a batch of snappy sayings that put down women. ("She's a human dynamo-charging everything." "Many a gal has made it to the top because her dress didn't.") This year, however, the ladies get a slightly better shake. Acting on a letter from a Maryland woman who complained about male chauvinism. Editor Ray Geiger has included in the 1973 edition a two-page article stressing women's intellectual equality and right to equal opportunities. Admits...
...Molloy's most satisfying experiences occurred a few years ago, when a conservatively dressed corporate recruiter at Columbia University insisted to him that clothes did not matter. It was a time when militant students were throwing recruiters off campus, and Molloy guaranteed that he could dress him so that a student would punch him in the nose. Dressed in dark blue clothing "just like a cop," the recruiter ventured back onto campus-and caught a fast one in the chops. Molloy collected his fee and won a convert...