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Word: pillows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Video-taped pinkies are beginning to face stern competition. In some of Osaka's hotel rooms, video-tape recorder systems have been installed. A flick of a switch near the pillow starts a video-tape camera recording activity on the bed. Afterward, another switch provides instant replays. Rooms so equipped are in steady demand: one couple attempting to sample the pleasures of an avec hotel was ordered by the maid to wait for a call at a nearby coffeehouse. "All the rooms are occupied," she said, "as usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Sinerama in Osaka | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...fakes pregnancy (with the help of a pillow) to get on welfare. She does not succeed, though, because the case-worker who comes to call is enamored of her silver shoes ("Just like the shoes Joan Crawford always wore!") to the extent that he will not put her on the dole list unless she gives them to him. She will not. Bribing welfare workers to get the money she rightfully deserves is a violation of her principles...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Fairy Tales Death Rattles | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...what fun I had in our third-grade play at M.K.E.S.-Mt. Kisco Elementary School-when I got to play Santa himself in all his red, pillow-stuffed splendor. Hadn't that been the height of my academic career? How can I dump...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Santa Claus Myth-Why It Must Be Crushed | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...urban congestion, pollution, racial unrest, constant apprehension over violence and crime. Actor Steve McQueen plans to move with his wife and two children to Switzerland next year. Says his wife Neile, who was a friend of the murdered Sharon Tate: "I sleep with a gun under my pillow because I don't trust anybody. We have an electric alarm at the gate and house alarm system, and it's still not enough. This is no way to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Latest American Exodus | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...past few nights I've been thinking just before I go to bed about the plays Yale will throw at us and about all the great plays that I'll respond with," Fenton said yesterday. "When I think like that on my pillow, I know I'll be up for the game," he added...

Author: By James Hines, | Title: Fenton Sad as Grid Career Ends | 11/20/1970 | See Source »

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