Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Without a doubt, Eleanor is prettier than George. But for all her ersatz eyelashes and frosted hair, her image is still one of a wife parroting the absurd, any-promise-for-a-vote utterances of her husband...
Harvard's mark was marred in the first weekend of play when it lost to both Columbia and Princeton. These losses--described by Nielson as "aesthetically traumatic"--were followed by wins over an unaesthetic Brown squad and a prettier Dartmouth team...
...invasion of Egypt, Dayan alighted from a French bomber at Bizerte. As the base commander shook hands with Dayan, his Gallic glance fell on a pair of female legs groping helplessly from the underside of the plane for a ladder that was not yet there. "We choose secretaries with prettier legs than those," cracked the Frenchman. Moments later Golda Meir, then Foreign Minister, emerged from the plane...
...first half-hour seated at a corner table and surrounded by six editors of the Wellesley News. It looked as if the entire staff had shown up to interview her, and one of the girls told me, "She's our most famous alumna since Madame Chiang Kai-shek." Prettier, too, I thought, but the editor sniffed, "Oh, I don't know, she looks thirty...
...room looked uncomfortable, as though unused to new clothes and strange surroundings. A few looked as though they'd be more comfortable at a student council or 4-H meeting. Others, wearing longish hair, moustaches, wide ties and dress bellbottoms, did what they could to impress the prettier YAF girls...