Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Barbara Gushing Paley, 63, graceful socialite and one of the world's best-dressed women; of cancer; in Manhattan. "Babe" Paley was introduced early to high society as one of three beautiful daughters of Boston Neurosurgeon Harvey Gushing. She first hit the best-dressed lists "on nothing a...
Miller himself has done enough to produce this switch to make businessmen and bankers look on him as the white hat in a kind of financial western: the new gun who arrived in Washington to rally the citizenry against the enemy, much as the Texas Rangers rode in to restore...
That seems a rather blithe overstatement: a tough budget-cutting policy will in fact arouse furious opposition. And "model economy" is a phrase so reminiscent of the naive expansiveness of the mid-1960s that hardly anyone else in Washington would dare utter it. But it sounds natural coming from Miller...
"At No. 10 the balcony of what had been our apartment was hung with wash. It had once seemed so high to me, but now I could almost reach it with my fingers. I glanced into the stores. Where were Eli the grocer and his wife, Zeldele? Just as Eli...
Hurley had already failed to make peace between Stilwell and Chiang when he decided to take off for Yenan to make peace between Communists and Nationalists. Hurley was talkative, with the Southwestern garrulousness that marked Lyndon Johnson-his concept being that, if he held a conversation together by his own...