Word: junior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spread far and deep into the country. Once the doctrine of well-educated middle-class women, often young and single, it has taken hold among working-class women, farm wives, blacks, Puerto Ricans, white "ethnics." The Y.W.C.A. embraces it; so do the Girls Clubs of America and the Junior Leagues. A measure of just how far the idea has come can be seen in the many women who denigrate the militant feminists' style ("too shrill, unfeminine") and then proceed to conduct their own newly independent lives. At year's end a Harris poll found that by 63% to 25%, Americans...
...worlds hitherto closed to women are opening. Increasingly, women are seen attending business conventions, sometimes with their husbands?when the spouse is invited. More and more women are becoming junior executives and sales representatives, positions that often lead to the top; roughly 12% of Xerox's traveling sales
...junior faculty member, who wished to remain anonymous, said yesterday that "the decisions about the library are being made by people who don't use it. I can appreciate the financial or other reasons for certain decisions, but I feel trapped by an unresponsive bureaucracy...
Living off-campus in Oakland with his German shepherd and the coach of Cal's junior-varsity team, Muncie is happiest when he can disappear into the California wilderness on cross-country skis or with a backpack. "I really enjoy getting away," he says. "Out there, no one can hassle you." Last winter he spent four grueling days climbing 3,500 ft. up snowbound Rte. 120 into Yosemite National Park. The purpose: three days of skiing in pristine Tuolumne Meadows. "No one had set foot in that snow," he says...
...dream cornerback. A favorite tactic is to zip up to the line and stun runners trying to sweep around the end. When he intercepts a pass, Hunter takes off like a running back. Haynes is another return threat who led the country in interceptions (eleven) when he was a junior. The scouts say that Pat Thomas, Texas A. & M., 5 ft. 10 in., 180 lbs., is also a cornerback who will not last long in the draft...