Word: latterday
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...block, five-story country club of glass and steel. It is nicknamed the Biggest Meat Market by its 5,000 youthful and mostly single, upper-middle-management members, who pay an initial $900 to join. The E.B.C. is more than a Dating Game in sweatsuits, however. It is a latterday, secular cathedral built to the glory of the body. The $20 million club contains ten tennis courts, a complete indoor golf facility, eight handball-racquetball courts, three squash courts, a basketball court, saunas, whirlpools, massage rooms, sleeping rooms, steam rooms, sunrooms, library, nursery, card room, an outdoor restaurant...
...strengthen his standing at the conference: the American delegation was unable to get a single reference to the hostages into the final resolution. Furthermore, Clark himself was denounced as a possible spy acting on Carter's behalf in the resolution, which accused him of plotting like a "latterday Rudolf Hess...