Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bastardy was the harsh, old-fashioned word, then illegitimacy, but now the letter asks a little desperately about a "nonmarital family." The husband in the affair has a nonmarital wife who is doing her best "not to keep things secret" and a nonmarital child of nine who "knows what the...
Debutante cotillions are back, and nightclubs (the Latin Quarter is reopening on Broadway in November) and old-fashioned weddings (at $10,000 and up). "The extravagant second marriage is a phenomenon not seen ten years ago," says the president of a Long Island firm that deals with such occasions. "The...
Harvard, of course, can make life easy on itself by winning the championship the old-fashioned way: by earning it. If the Cantabs are victorious in each of the next three games, they'll waltz into their first outright league title since 1975.
With his broad shoulders, silver hair and deep, drawling voice, Thad Cochran seems a paragon of the old-fashioned Southern politician. He is not. As the first Republican since Reconstruction to win a Senate seat from Mississippi, Cochran, 46, personifies the changing face of the Deep South. A boosterish supporter...
All 13 cartel oil ministers are due to meet in emergency session today to seek agreement on a hastily fashioned plan for cutting overall OPEC production by at least 1 million barrels a day. The present OPEC limit on production is 17.5 million barrels a day.