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Word: harems (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vestment outlets. Cornfeld, a onetime social worker, proclaimed that "everyone can be a millionaire." As if to prove it, he lived a sybaritic life in a Geneva man sion built by Napoleon, where he was sur rounded by purring cheetahs, freeloading jet-setters and a harem of adolescent beauties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bernie Cleared | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...windbreaker, and got him as a regular contributor. For Esquire's first issue, Hemingway brought with him Ring Lardner Jr. and John Dos Passos. Gingrich believed that an editor edits best who edits least. Esquire's third element was sex-from the Petty and Varga pinups to harem cartoons- which got the magazine in early trouble with the postal authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Stuck with a Magazine's Genes | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...were asking questions. They wanted to know if the women were being used as prostitutes; they denied it. The police asked just how Mariannina's husband's pension check was used. The answer was unclear. So now the authorities have charged Giuseppe with pandering and selling his harem's offspring, and they have taken him away. His wife misses him. So do Nos. 1 through 8 (except Fortunata), two of whom are pregnant. Says one: "He loved us all, and he reawakened the joy of living and loving in each of us." Alas, the joy is gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Love Story | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...drag. It's the thing that everyone waits for, and like the Orange Bowl halftime show, it gets more outrageous every year. "Immoral Code" starts out as harem burlesque, eases into "shake your baubels" Mediterranean disco, and before the night is over, we get the mombo, conga, meringue, and of course, the remedial can-can. The transitions are fast, a credit to the show's skilled choreography, and the dancers are fully aware that they are playing drag, not house...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: The Smell of the Crowd | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

...four" of Ricky Free, Juan Mitchell, Shane Cotner, and all-time assist leader Alton Byrd returning for the third year in a row. They had played exhilarating ball last year on their way to winning 13 of their last 15 games. The league race came down to a harem scarem finish with the Lions defeating Penn on the last weekend of the season and then losing to Princeton the next night to finish a game behind the Quakers...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Lion and the Thorn | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

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