Word: parlorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they went--Reuben Askew, Alan Cranston, John Glenn, Gary Hart, Ernest Hollings, Walter Mondale, and George McGovern--walking in single file in Cambridge on their way to Steve's Ice Cream Parlor...
Tugging at hems has been a feminine wile ever since skirts got off the floor, but more and more U.S. girls are now looking for a new parlor trick. Their skirts are soaring so high that no amount of hemming and hauling could help them hide those inches above the knee. Recently imported from Paris, the short, short skirt has been gleefully adopted by the avant-garde among U.S. teen-agers and coeds as the perfect complement to patterned stockings and leather boots-usually white. From San Francisco coffeehouses to Manhattan discotheques, girls are beginning to reveal more thigh than...
...that August of 1927, when I was a Harvard undergraduate and, indeed, an editor of The Crimson, I visited the funeral parlor in East Boston where Sacco and Vanzetti were lying in state. On their temples I saw the daubs of white which were used to cover the burns where the fatal electrodes had been attached...
Matters might have got out of hand, except for the civilian and military police, who were deployed in force. "One way or another, we're going to get the freaks out," threatened Wayne Morrison, a printer from Romulus (pop. 2,600). Contended Millie Todd, who runs a beauty parlor in Romulus: "They're lesbians. They don't salute the flag. They have set back what women have fought for, for a good 50 to 100 years." Said Tom Selling, a local carpenter sympathetic to the protest's cause: "You come here and act like...
Hula-Hoops. Frisbees. Drag races. The pizza parlor. One or more of these images will bring back the summers of their adolescence for many Americans who grew up in the '50s or early '60s. For others, however, one phrase says it all: the drive-in. They probably had their first date in a 1957 gas guzzler, with wraparound windows and sharklike tailfins, where they learned that sex is not just a three-letter word. But now, a mere 50 years after the first one opened in Camden, N.J., the drive-in is an endangered institution; in much...