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Word: racks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discovered when Mother Rose Kennedy asked her to deliver towels to Ted and three friends in the sauna. In the White House, John F. Kennedy once summoned her for an interview while he was soaking in the tub. "I was so uncomfortable that I took a washcloth off the rack and threw it to him to cover up. After all, he was the President of the United States!" Because she was "surrounded by the effeminate men who so often inhabit the world of rich women," Jacqueline Kennedy worried for a while about what traits "artistically inclined" John Jr. might develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 1, 1971 | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...struggles to please her self-centered husband Jonathan, to bring up her children, to run her party. Her surroundings conspire against her. The caterers move in and take over her party; the neighbors complain to her about the coat rack that her husband has left in the hall of their Central Park West apartment; Jonathan derides her in front of the children; and when she cooks a special stuffing for the Thanksgiving turkey (as Jonathan has demanded), one of the girls spits it out. Jonathan explodes...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Diary of a Mad Housewife gone, but will be back next month | 1/13/1971 | See Source »

...match was more even than the score indicates, the Tigers winning six bouts to the Crimson's four. Unfortunately for Harvard, many of Auburn's victories came on pins, which helped rack up more points for the Tigers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Takes Second Behind Auburn In Virginia Tech Quadrangular Meet | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...Santa. It had just been a game. That Christmas Eve I took my first sleeping pill. I didn't bother pecking out the window before getting in bed to see if the sleigh were flying through the air. And I just put the potholders on my mother's rack after I finished them. My childhood had been torn asunder...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Santa Claus Myth-Why It Must Be Crushed | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

Nothing's really changed. The smell's the same, the guys still run stadiums after coming in half-dead from the river, and freshman coxswains still rack up about one shell a year. Anyone complaining about the rapid changes at Harvard can retire to Newell Boat House and find stability...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 12/4/1970 | See Source »

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