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Word: droops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elvis' upper lip still curls upward a bit, and his eyelids tend toward an insolent droop, but there is simply no energy left. It's more than generation gap that places the man closer to Dean Martin and Tom Jo?es than any current rock performer. Was this pathetic old man the fifties' Mick Jagger? Is this then the performer's grand finale...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Amerikultcha And Elvis Went Into The Desert... | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...undergraduate concerns, the Advocate persisted tenaciously at being whatever it was, and resolutely reasserted itself as a functioning quarterly the year I joined. This was regarded by some as a kind of rejuvenation, but the contents, when they were from Harvard, remained hopelessly Lowellian, and the sales continued to droop. At Harvard, hardly anyone read the Advocate...

Author: By Jonathan Galassi, | Title: Writing What to Do About Poetry | 4/17/1970 | See Source »

...than usual, she announced that casual sit-down chats with guest stars would be out of the question for the next few days. "I've had three operations on my face and one on my stomach," Dercy says, "and I'll have 20 if necessary. Wherever I droop, I want it taken off. I wasn't born with anything sagging." Most of the American and European women who make vanity trips to Rio lack Senhora Gonçalves' sangfroid; they prefer to sneak away "for the carnival," returning miraculously refurbished to the astonished delight of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Retreads in Rio | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...James Shapiro, one of three Harvard researchers to receive national publicity for determination of the structure of the gene, has droop his research activities to concentra on problems of health delivery. D? Shapiro will devote his efforts the year to helping "correct the inequiti?? in the current plans of the A.H.C...

Author: By Carl Cobb, | Title: Harvard faces critics in housing, health | 2/11/1970 | See Source »

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