Word: poshli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could hear the lords and ladies now from the grandstand, and could see them standing up to wave me in: "Run!" they were shouting in their posh voices. "Run!" But I was deaf, daft and blind, and stood where I was, still tasting bark in my mouth and still blubbing like a baby, blubbing now out of gladness that I'd got them beat at last. --From The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe...
...warmer than it was at the top. The narrow streets then give way to broad tree-lined avenues wrapped in the shadows of the towering hotels, banks, and office buildings built by the money of foreign companies and wealthy local businessmen. Further on still, this district merges into the posh suburbs, where, it is said, one can sit under a palm tree in winter while it snows a thousand feet above on the small huts that from below look like a child's building blocks...
...series called Religious America, which began two Sundays ago on some 230 PBS stations across the country. The series does not try to be a comprehensive sampling of U.S. religion. Roman Catholicism is represented by a Trappist monastery and a Mexican American parish, mainstream Protestantism by Manhattan's posh St. James' Episcopal Church and a Midwest Lutheran parish, the Jews by a Hasidic sect. Two segments are about black Christianity, one about a Jesus commune, one on Kundalini yoga. But the series' special focus is not on ways of worship but on individuals who have faith...
...favorite male chauvinist taunt is that men make not only the best chefs (Carêeme, Escoffier) but the most demanding gourmets too. To kill the latter canard, New York magazine's food maven Gael Greene helped organize a ladies' feast at Manhattan's posh Four Seasons restaurant. One of France's premier chefs (helas, un homme), Paul Bocuse, whose Lyons restaurant bears his name as well as the Guide Michelin's esteemed three stars, flew over the day before the banquet burdened with such Gallic specialties as pate de foie gras, truffles, Mediterranean bass...
...when it handled just $14 million in bets during a 13-week season. Hecht modernized the plant and produced a greyhound gold mine. In 1972 the track handled $63 million in bets (8% went to management) in a 16-week meeting. Every night Hecht can be found in a posh suite of offices perched at one end of the track. There he can monitor the betting windows on TV or close the curtains and lock the office door by pressing a button by his desk. "There's a few things you aren't going to stop people from...