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Word: nostagia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...dressed man, who set the fashion for the male population...the perfect Southern gentleman." At around that time, he worked full-time in an administrative post called adjutant general for the United Confederate Veterans, an organization that had a hard time extracting from the Civil War anything worthy of nostagia. It groped toward finding a usable past by erecting monuments to dead Confederate Army generals...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: In Search of Covington Hall | 10/23/1975 | See Source »

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