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Word: elasticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mornings after, fraternity brothers are draped across beat-up furniture like limp spaghetti. At most fraternity houses just about the only sign of civilization is a composite picture of the members that hangs over the fireplace. Upstairs in Theta House a green banner forlornly proclaims, WHEN BETTER WOMEN ARE MADE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene: In Hanover: The Big Green Battle of the Sexes | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

SOMETHING HAPPENS when you stay too long in the suburbs. Those inclined to harshness see it as a kind of dry rot, a slow and dusty torpor of the soul that accommodates itself all tooeasilyto the relentless affluence of Scarsdale and Grosse Pointe, to a world of shopping malls and...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Updike Unloosed | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

Strong Elastic

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Gridders Zap Minutemen, 10-0 | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Such heterogeneity can make for schism. But Anglicanism has also been described by a Lutheran theologian as "the most elastic church in all of Christendom." Last week the Anglicans acted true to form, weaving a middle way on the vexatious issue of whether women should be ordained as priests. Meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unity at Canterbury | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

Then there are her shoes. All dancers are meticulous about their slippers, so Gelsey is fanatic. A toe shoe is a rigid object. To get one of her 50 pairs in shape, she brushes Fabulon floor wax into the shoe to make it even harder. Since hard shoes make noise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: U.S. Ballet Soars | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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