Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The organization's "media events" have matched its rhetoric in zaniness and lack of inhibition. The slogan "No Hippo Critters" adorned the walls of San Francisco's Longshoreman's Hall in October 1974, when the first annual Hookers' Ball attracted nationwide notice. Frisco and the rest of the West mustered...
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's tenth anniversary in office was marked late last month with celebrations throughout the country. At one mass rally in Bombay, the president of India's ruling Congress Party compared her to the Hindu goddess of strength. The comparison was apt. On the last...
First-line combat outfits have been preparing for desert warfare for some time. In the summer of 1973, there was public admission of at least a run-through for a desert style operation, nicknamed Operation Alkali Canyon 73, in Time and US News and World Report. this was followed by...
The Navy has also been moving in the Persian Gulf area. O November 25, 1974, the American aircraft carrier Constellation sailed into the Persian Gulf on what was officially described as a "familiarization" mission. This journey marked a definite break with the Navy's 26-year-old convention of keeping...
The resounding victory--Harvard, 95; Northeastern, 67; and B.C., 60, with Brandeis, B.U., MIT and Tufts floundering far behind--marked the fifth win in five attempts for the Crimson this year.