Word: posh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death of her husband in 1941) last week sold the Gotham, the Stanhope and California's Beverly Wilshire to William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp for $25 million. As replacements, Mrs. Sharp plans to put up in Manhattan and Beverly Hills a pair of new luxury hotels, as posh as ever but with modern details, such as refrigerators disguised as antiques...
...blight than bright, the new acronyms are a kind of regression. They do not really enrich the language because they are words already. Still, they cap a fine old tradition that probably began with the Romans' SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus). Britons in the 19th century, for example, contributed posh (port out, starboard home), a way to remember the breeze-cooled side on Indiabound ships. Acronyms first picked up speed in World War I with such coinages as Anzac, for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, AWOL, for absent without official leave, and asdic (Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee), which...
...Bogeymen. Lou Seaton tries hard to convince his fellow G.M. executives that not all union leaders are bogeymen -and vice versa. Despite a six-figure income, he continues to live in an unpretentious suburban home that he bought 20 years ago, takes little part in Detroit's posh country-club life. In off-bargaining season, he plays poker and cribbage with union buddies, attends union social functions, and has been known to shell out of his own pocket for old union friends who fell on hard times. On first-name terms not only with Reuther but with "Jimmy...
...their eyes from the presence of the blacks, the bus company quickly capitulated, announced it would carry anyone with fare. Largely through their own haste and poor planning, the African freedom riders were less successful elsewhere. They took a 16-year-old girl along with them to invade the posh Dolphin Bar, retreated in confusion when the bartender gently explained that she was underage. One African girl, sent to test segregation in the public toilet facilities, forgot to take the necessary penny for the slot. Another girl walked into the swank Ann Douglas beauty parlor and demanded "the works...
...service with the British army of occupation in Vienna-somewhat hard to credit.) He pretends not to work, but sneaks off after a few raucous beers at the local pub to do a bit of secret studying. On a scholarship he has gone to a minor but passably posh school, and his family, which has invested all its hopes in the possibility of his sliding into the mysterious, U-type Brahmin group of English society, cowers amid the potted plants and wireless set in lower-middle-class Pimlico...