Word: posh
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...Beatles are the ultimate symbols of the posh, respectable vie boheme. They live in the suburbs that the Rolling Stones Knock in their songs. They have never dropped out from society. They have never had to slum it to gain a sly, detached, enlightening line of sight on the status quo. They are idols to the hippies, prophets to the establishment, and fetishes to the teeny-boppers...
...stand watch at annual corporate meetings, and have been known to haul obstreperous stockholders out bodily on orders from the chair. The company turns down divorce cases, but its plainclothesmen will track missing persons, check out insurance frauds or, in white tie and tails, guard jewelry at a posh party. No rewards are ever accepted...
After meeting for three days at the home of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a posh mansion in Brookline, the group condemned the use of nuclear bombs, even for peaceful purposes, including Project Plowshare, which plans to harness nuclear explosions for such projects as the digging of a new sea-level Panama Canal...
...hunt for girls) in the town's dozen nightclubs and 25 bars, emboldened by a local libation called Aspen Crud, a vanilla milk shake laced with anything alcoholic. Latest place is Stromberg's, in the basement beneath a drugstore, where skiers dine on escargots, fondue and hot posh (cappuccino and rum), stay on for recorded flamenco, folk and jazz. In Vail, dancers head for the Golden Ski or the Casino Vail, where the latest fad is turtle racing. The leading turtles so far are Apollo and the Cuban Stallion, but they had better keep on winning. One sore...
...Harvard golf team, riding high on Wednesday's double victory over Boston College and Williams, will meet Pennsylvania and Columbia in a triangular match today at the posh Golf Mills Country Club outside Philadelphia...