Word: markedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The barricades are seen only fleetingly by most middle-class Americans as they rush by in their cars or commuter trains?doors locked, windows closed, moving fast. But out there is a different world, a place of pock-marked streets, gutted tenements and broken hopes. Affluent people know little about...
Phillips listened, thought about Presley, took his time making a decision. There was no rush. Presley, then 18, was pulling down $35 a week as a truck driver for the Crown Electric Co. About the only audience who knew him were his high school classmates who had watched, stunned, as...
Hardly, but her timing might have been better. The day before her arrival marked the sixth anniversary of the start of internment, the unwise British detention plan that summarily imprisoned 2,000 suspected terrorists and thus served to heighten sectarian tensions in Ulster before the program was abandoned in 1975...
When Punch was about five his father decreed that he was too old to be playing with his sisters' dolls, so the boy staged an elaborate backyard burial for them. When he went to school, young Arthur was less interested in studying than in tinkering: with clocks, wagons, radios...
*A family custom that survives. Punch last year marked a grandnephew's birth with this ditty: O Nicholas Ochs put on his socks to cover his chubby feet. He dropped in the hamper a slightly used Pamper and went out for a walk in the street. O Nicholas Ochs...