Word: joined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West's Big Four join forces at "somewhat of a social affair...
...teacher next to her as she stares at the sky. For it really seems that the skin of the dome has been silently folded back to reveal the universe. There is the illusion of floating weightlessly out into space, secure in one's armchair, to join the nearest shining astral bodies, 25 trillion miles away...
...anyone doubts that today's obvious problems are neither unique nor insurmountable, let him join Lyet on one of his frequent visits to the 19th century world of Manhattan's University Club, an architectural gem on Fifth Avenue. In a plastic case under a high-vaulted ceiling is a copy of the New York Tribune, opened to the same day of the same month 100 years ago. Lyet is always reassured to read that the worries of 1879 have a familiar ring. "There were problems with international relations. Somebody was always threatening somebody else. And people were getting...
...people years to discover. The problem is that Marcie is even richer than Oliver but shares none of his guilt over that enviable condition. Her pleasure in being one of the Bonwits of Bonwit Teller makes Oliver more and more sullen. The upshot is that he leaves her to join his own family's business, a New England mill whose workers, he thinks, need his liberal-minded ministrations. The picture ends with a voice-over announcing his intention to make his good works Jenny's monument...
While the Harvard Club chose not to open its doors to other universities, it decided to allow almost any Harvard graduate to join. The exclusivity and prejudice are essentially things of the past; the club is, as more than one member described it, a "service facility...