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Word: haltered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exceptions, the 78° decree started a wave of more casual dress. Men were discarding suit jackets (the equivalent of reducing their workspace temperature by 3°), loosening or shedding ties (saving another 1°) and wearing short-sleeved shirts. Women in offices were turning to halter tops, looser fitting clothes and thinner fabrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Trying to Sweat It Out at 78 | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...only was the price of strawberries and cream up sharply, from $1.20 to $1.65, but a glass of champagne cost $3.30, a dollar more than last year. To top it all off, an unseeded but well-endowed Californian named Linda Siegel, 18, momentarily popped out of her daring, halter-neck tennis dress in mid-stroke during a losing engagement with Billie Jean King. GAME, SET ... OUT! chortled a Fleet Street headline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wimbledon: Game, Set, Out! | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...warning that a representative of the U.S. embassy in Georgetown was about to investigate the complaints. On Jones' orders, members were well dressed for the occasion, and good food was put on the table. "A visit was the only time we ate well," says Blakey. Wearing skimpy halter tops, commune women were instructed to flirt with the embassy official to keep his mind off the investigation. His report was not critical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Following the Leader | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...stand 40-year-old ladies in halter tops, not to mention an invasion of teenyboppers that makes the Visigoths' sack of Rome--in 410 A.D., remember--look like a Boy Scout scavenger hunt. Manifold or no Manifold, though, I really love this stadium. There have been some great moments over the years...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: But Seriously, Folks... | 8/1/1978 | See Source »

...unmarked blue squad car, Hickman pointed out the sights to TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce. Driving by one apartment building, Hickman recalled, "Until recently, the whores there had a ten-year-old boy acting as a lookout." Entering an "encounter parlor," he was greeted by a woman in halter and shorts-and told that she holds "rap sessions." Then why the mattress on the floor? "That's to make the customers comfortable," the woman explained. Replied Hickman: "It's easy to see you're trained therapists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Cleaning Up the Act in Hollywood | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

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