Word: neat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like to say that the smiling-face gimmick that is sweeping the country [Aug. 30] is hardly new. Teachers in primary grades have been using the Smilie, quickly drawn on papers, to show young students that their work is correct and neat. It encourages the little ones as well as being...
What seems to have made that era so comfortable for vice, apart from the occasional luxury, was the old double standard, the neat if uncharitable belief that some women were just bad, and no real harm in that. But high-minded ministers and pious women soon assaulted this view with the fierce preachment that everyone must be good. By the early 1920s, after two generations of struggle, the reformers had won the official prohibition of commercial sex (and liquor as well...
...profits scooted up even faster. Few people could resist the urge to go on a buying spree to stock up on clothes, cars and all sorts of consumer goods in order to beat the next price hike. Daring entrepreneurs became instant millionaires; even penny-ante plungers built up neat nest eggs in the stock market. Inevitably, an exhilarating boom faded into sobering recession. But the letdown was usually short and sharp, followed quickly by rebound and prosperity...
Inscrutable Joys. Both trains and planes are kept wondrously neat, onboard food is excellent, the supply of hot tea is endless, and ticket prices are reasonable. Loudspeakers, however, relentlessly blare selections from the Mao-glorifying "The East Is Red" or the equally ear-splitting "Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman." (Three guesses as to who the helmsman happens...
...says Mary Beth Brill, an unabashed eighth-grader in the "new town" of Columbia, Md. Yet the Wilde Lake Middle School (grades 6 through 8), which she now attends, looks at first like a model of irresponsibility. It lacks neat classrooms, desks in rows, hands raised before speaking. Many of its 750 students sprawl in conversational clusters on the carpeted floors. They spend most of their time jumbled into three vast rooms called "pods" that hold 250 kids apiece. Since the pods are really one-room schoolhouses, Wilde Lake sounds like a hive of teen-agers doing their homework with...