Word: longish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the delegates standing around the edges of the room looked uncomfortable, as though unused to new clothes and strange surroundings. A few looked as though they'd be more comfortable at a student council or 4-H meeting. Others, wearing longish hair, moustaches, wide ties and dress bellbottoms, did what they could to impress the prettier YAF girls...
...school in Connecticut where he led a small ("5 or 6 guys") YAF chapter. The most freak-like of all the delegates (wearing tennis shoes, small round sunglasses, a colored T-shirt, overalls with a "For God and Country" flag patch, and a part in the middle of his longish hair), Warren was the only one to openly question Keene's views on the war by raising an opposing point of view during the question-and-answer period. "I advocated winning for a while, but I've given up. They're Mickey-Mouseing around over there with little rules...
...juggernaut last January. The paper's Paris bureau complained that there was no such word, but Fairchild knew better. He mailed them a page from his Cassell's French-English dictionary, where he had found it. WWD's front-page kickoff story began: "The word longuette means, in French, 'longish, somewhat long, pretty long, too long.' That just about sums up the Paris scene today...
Television created the Namath legend. The flaky white football cleats. The longish hair. The FuManchu mustache. The perfectly thrown touchdown bombs. And the newspapers, by religiously quoting Namath's reaction to his publicity, did the rest. Overnight, Namath's name became a household word, and the unfavorable reaction to it by the perpetrators of the All-American clean-living school only strengthened Namath's appeal...