Word: posh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eats tortillas by preference. A bilingual Anglo don to the New Mexican Hispanos, Hurd (who once rode to the hounds along the Chesapeake) long ago started a home-grown polo team with his ranch hands. Because of their roughriding, mallet-mashing style of playing, they compete with more posh teams under the name, "the San Patricio Snake Killers...
...Audacious in concept, vivid in execution and realistically priced ($20 and up), Mary Quant's offbeat styles (a typical dress trimmed red flannel with black lace, included a striped bodice and a quilted hem) caused such a local stir that buyers hurried over from abroad. Today, with a posh London office, a vast European market, and outlets in 45 American department stores, Mary Quant is a $3,000,000-a-year business...
TOLEDO. The Spanish pavilion's posh pad is not for hoi polloi, but it has the best food and service at the fair. An armada of waiters hovers around to keep the diner happy. Though the Toledo specializes in fine French cuisine, it will cheerfully give you the works in Spanish too. Start with an andaluza, follow with gazpacho soup (muy bueno) and fill up on paella. Don't forget the sangria, a red wine with soda...
...local Negroes and about thirty New England white chaplains and students had at least made an impression on the police force of the heavily segregated city. Just that morning, armed with electric "cattle prods" and police dogs, the law had arrested nearly 150 children who had entered a posh hotel dining room asking to be served. A spirited old lady named Mrs. Peabody had also been arrested. With the publicity of these two events Hosea hoped to draw more support from the outside. However, local segregation was proving tough to crack. What little we Negro and white demonstrators achieved here...
...idiom of contemporary Manhattan and ancillary Fairfield County. Smith has a great marble mausoleum under construction, air-conditioned, flood-and earthquake-proof. Smith moodily lurks there from time to time. The ghosts are of the contemporary autobiographical kind-Smith's own spectral guilty memories acquired in a posh Jesuit prep school. The furies are represented by the Press. Evil is represented by the abandoned power-bitch wife whose cold heart can never be touched by the grace of love, but there are others to offer it in all its forms...