Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, the French-speaking province of Quebec was a quaint backwater off the Canadian mainstream, slow to develop but full of lively tales about the grafting ways of Provincial Premier Maurice Duplessis and his Union Nationale party. Soon after the mighty Duplessis died in 1959, the Liberals came to power under a new Premier, Jean Lesage, 48, pledged to clean up and modernize Quebec. Last week Lesage took himself and his reform program to the polls in a snap election. The results were decisive: Lesage's Liberals gained nine seats to win a solid majority of 63 seats...
According to the normally caustic Times writer Howard Tuckner, there isn't a thing Archie does wrong. His only fault--a slight sloppiness in the care of his room--turned out to be a quaint sort of virtue...
...tanned, healthy faces are getting sharper than the curriculum, which needs revision to fit them. The untaxing overseas courses, for example, are often labeled "inane." Humanities need to be put on a par with science. Stanford's new boys and girls also chafe at Stanford's quaint old ways. Liquor is banned and so is "partisan politics," which means that Nixon and Brown can speak on campus, but their supporters cannot...
...used to avalanches of garrulity, as well as fits of secrecy. But rarely has he had such trouble getting a story as in the waters off Newport. The cup racers and selection committee members are all business, suspicious of outsiders, wary of the press, and usually "have a quaint idea that sailing is still for the upper classes...
Cherished Monstrosity. Whichever boat the committee chooses will be a heavy favorite to retain the America's Cup against Gretel next month. Tradition is firmly with the U.S. In in years, the U.S. has never lost a match for the quaint Victorian monstrosity that cost 100 guineas (about $500) new and remains securely bolted to the bottom of a glass trophy case in the New York Yacht Club...