Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the Harvards meet the Yales," a veteran observer noted, "you can throw out the record book. Anything can happen out there in this tradition-laden clash between the nation's oldest and richest institutions. Those boys will play their hearts out for you every time...
Each day in Paris, three cargo planes laden with newspapers leave Orly Airport to scatter their cargo across France. On the ground, six trains, 350 cars, 211 motorcycles and 400 bicycles mobilize all over the country for much the same mission. All the carriers have something else in common besides their freight. They are rolling for a French publishing house called Hachette...
Women are always serious about love, but Doris Lessing is more than serious: she is downright glum or defeatist. She writes about people broken in love with the doom-laden tones of a Thomas Hardy telling of the time of the breaking of nations...
...toxic consequence has little effect on the millions of Frenchmen who cannot resist aller aux champignons-tramping into the woods for mushrooms when the delicacies sprout, with particular abundance, during the first turning of the leaves. Last week, thanks to a wretchedly wet summer, the Gallic countryside was laden with a bumper crop-and some 45 persons were dead of mushroom poisoning. Countless others lay ill at home or in hospitals...
Double-breasted blazers, long popular with the international sporting crowd, have not yet made their mark on ivy-laden New England. About 1950 the double breasted suit died, and only a handful of avant-garde types around here have recently picked it up again...