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Word: flirts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surely the best actor to pay us court, the most practiced at thinking on his feet with a glass in his hand. Now and again he paused, sipping the fine yeasts of his bourbon, to regard us over a glass rim while his eyes squinted as if to flirt with a wink. Oratorically, however, he was off his game. A few weeks earlier he had read to an appreciative Harvard audience in Sanders Theatre from his new manuscript, Of A Fire On The Moon, scooping up questions as smoothly as a sure-handed shortstop, turning a few heckler...

Author: By Larry L. king, | Title: A Former Nieman Looks Back, Part II Mailer and Styron at Harvard | 10/3/1970 | See Source »

...report to the American Medical Association, Vandervoort suggested that women who behave seductively in the doctor's office fall into five classes: HABITUAL FLIRT. One who has learned early to handle her anxiety in regard to men by flirting with them. The doctor is in no great danger because habitual flirts rarely go beyond the stages of teasing, promising and innuendo. DOCTOR KILLER. A "downright dangerous" patient, actually a man-hater who must dominate her physician to meet her own psychological needs. If she succeeds in seducing him, she will spread word of her triumph to destroy him socially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Seductive Patients | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

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