Word: menfolk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some pastoral, primitive islands of Micronesia, bare-breasted maidens and wives do a lot of the hardscrabble work and are among the primary breadwinners, going to the reefs and lagoons to fish for the family table. Naturally, their labors make life a lot easier for the menfolk. Women's lib notwithstanding, the U.S. has not approached this state of affairs-which male chauvinists may or may not applaud-but the fact is that women are surging into America's labor force, increasingly doing what in simpler times was called men's work. In the process they...
...wrote the letter in the Radcliffe, Class of '75's freshmen registration envelope, advising class members to "restrain the baser instincts of their menfolk...
...letter, claiming that Square pharmacists had confidentially reported an increase in the sale of contraceptive devices, urged that Cliffies "restrain the baser instincts of their menfolk...
...which is not to say that TIME'S menfolk were consigned to the bench. Male correspondents across the U.S. added to the reportage. The cover story and ac companying features, we believe, are a happy example of male-female collaboration, having been written by Bob McCabe and B.J. Phillips, who despite the initials is very much a lady...