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Word: frontless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1946-1946
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Citizens of the U.S. were talking about automobiles and nylons last week. Barbers had difficulty lathering around bitter discussions of strikes. People talked about weather, washing machines, colds, divorce, children's appetites, and at times, after a few drinks, about that fascinating postwar fiction, the frontless evening gown. But the atomic bomb, incomprehensible and unavoidable as taxes and death itself, entered the average citizen's conversation hardly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Why Talk about It? | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

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