Word: founds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manners since World War II, and particularly since the sexual revolution of the '60s, is The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, which has just been revised by former White House Social Secretary Letitia Baldrige. To prepare the cover story, Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison interviewed Baldrige and found her "warm, graceful and witty, with manners so good you don't notice them." The cover assignment, however, made Harbison so acutely aware of social minutiae that she was "shocked to find my teenage daughter didn't seem to know the difference between a salad fork and a dinner...
...other suburbs, Levittown financed its education system mainly through property taxes. In the 1970s, as school costs soared, the tax bill for many of those neat little houses all in a row started hitting $200 and more a month. Original owners, now on fixed incomes and their children grown, found themselves hard pressed. To make matters worse, some people felt they were not getting their money's worth, claiming the schools were failing to teach the basics. The result was a hard line on taxes. "I'm a fighter for my kids," says Joan Anderson, the mother...
...Socialist reforms were the first step toward the concentration camp! He seriously misjudged the wishes of the country. There was a more radical mood, created largely by the war, and this, in addition to the obvious failings of the previous system, meant that the introduction of the welfare state found widespread acceptance. The Labour minister of health, Nye Bevan, was initially faced with opposition by 90 per cent of the British Medical Association. They even attempted to strike, but eventually this opposition disappeared due to a series of compromises. This included the continuation of a small private sector, which shares...
...They seemed equally removed when I heard for a fact they were dead, which is odd, since I have as clear a picture of them standing there, witless, as I do of anything else I've ever seen. I even tried in detached curiosity to imagine how they were found--frozen, in one sleeping bag--and even those thoughts didn't affect me the way I would have expected them...
...winter of 1977 found the icemen rejoicing after two flawless games against Boston College and Boston University had captured the Beanpot title for them. Then, less than a month later, a 3-2 loss in the last eight seconds to Dartmouth bumped the Crimson out of the ECAC top eight for the first time in 11 seasons...