Word: hards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hard Luck...
...intellectuals among today's feminists have as hard a task as Mrs. Stanton, for they must challenge Freud, one of the most influential sexists the world has ever known, as well as platoons of psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists, all of whom insist, in one way or another, that "anatomy is destiny...
...once admired prose style. Harold Ross of The New Yorker said that he was "the most enlightened man writing today." That praise now seems a shade inconsequential-as if a potentially great pianist had squandered his digital gifts as a pinball virtuoso. In truth, Mencken worked hard at his prose but had the autodidact's fatal fondness for the fancy word. As for the flowers of wit culled by Carl Bode, a professor of English at the University of Maryland, they have wilted badly. Intended to shock rather than illuminate, the once celebrated epigrams shock no more. The examples...
Granatelli. "the hard-luck kid of Indianapolis." described his enormously successful Triangle marketing technique consisting of personality, product, and the STP name-which has increased the sales of his STP Corporation from $9 million to $52 million since he became its president six years...
...arrived in Washington too late Friday night to get gassed at Dupont Circle. That was a pretty hard fate to accept-rather like being the last kid in your class to enter puberty...