Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whites-a fairly effective method, according to charges filed last week by the New York State attorney general's office, of preserving the union's whiteness. On this particular test, one of four an applicant must pass, there is not one question about the relation of monkey wrench to pipe...
...ordinary old ho-hum sportswear type, but a brand-new outrageous variety, cut higher, tighter and altogether skimpier than anything Ruby Keeler ever kicked in (see THE THEATER). No longer fashioned of sturdy standards like denim and broadcloth, the current crop is made of flashier stuff-mink and monkey fur, silk and satin, calfskin, chiffon and cut velvet. The accepted generic term, hot pants, lends the style the leering inference of an adolescent joke. But short shorts are no joke; they are serious business, and women in major European and U.S. cities are currently risking their fashion reputations-and severe...
...With first-term exams behind them, students are virtually free to do-and get credit for-whatever they can persuade a faculty adviser to approve. At Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., one-third of the students are scattering to work with Head Start programs, study primatology with an experimental monkey colony in the Bahamas or apprentice themselves to welders to learn sculpture techniques. At Goucher College near Baltimore, the hit of 55 interim courses concocted by students and professors has the forbidding title "Chemistry and Physics Applied: Nuts and Bolts of Contemporary Society." The course is really a seminar...
...Administration is attempting, as one spokesman puts it, to "put the monkey on Hanoi's back," because it cannot regain the POW's by negotiation and maintain its plans for perpetual war in Asia...
...What was the name of the monkey in the Babar books...