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Word: py (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weary Frenchmen, fed up with continual government crises, were hap py to let De Gaulle do the deciding. By an overwhelming margin, they approved the new constitution in a referendum and elected De Gaulle the first President of the new Fifth Republic. He quickly took firm control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Glimpse of Glory, a Shiver of Grandeur | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

Tunics to Trunks. Department stores were only too delighted to respond to the spell. Most took full-page newspaper ads celebrating serpent fashions. Manhattan's Lord & Taylor opened a special shop, "Great Snakes," last month, stocked it with everything from real py thon tunics to synthetic-snake robes, jackets and dresses, and fake python steamer trunks. At Saks in San Francisco snaky accessories are going at such a striking rate there are never enough around for a window display. In Manhattan, boutiques got into the swing, repapered their walls with snakeskin and offered esoteric items like the cobra patchwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: For Goodness Snakes, the Serpents Have Come | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

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