Word: length
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pictures of major news events, but our editors also strive to present the quieter, more slowly developing trends and realities that affect our world. The plight of young black men in America is one such undercurrent, and in this issue we explore the subject at greater than usual length...
...bride wore a "very simple floor-length shirtwaist dress, pink silk with gold thread," the bride said yesterday. The couple spent eight days honeymooning on the Caribbean island of Nevis...
...frame" forces her to bypass the major immigrant groups of the late 19th and 20th centuries, among them Italians, Portuguese, Irish, Poles, Hungarians and Russians. What she really hears is a part of America cooking, and that is less than the title promises. And she goes on at great length with quotes from too many old American cookbooks, long in the public domain and too well known to bear repeating...
Looking reflectively down the length of the bridge, he said, "I have almost a perfect lack of confidence in those state fellows. If I were to pray, I would pray that the bridge be spared the attentions of engineers, and of arsonists -- equal dangers with very little difference. This bridge is a masterpiece. You can't help but be stirred by the workmanship that went into it. It should be saved. When it's gone, it's gone...
...Told that the bride must stay awake in bed all night so as not to disturb the henna markings on her hands and feet, Diana remarked, "Poor bride." Later the Princess set Arab tongues wagging when she appeared in a lilac silk- crepe jacket, worn over a mid-calf-length skirt, that prompted fervent speculation as to whether or not she was wearing a brassiere underneath. Popular opinion held that...