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Word: retainers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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When PALC leaders were handed that decision Wednesday afternoon, few doubted that a closed Afro meeting Wednesday night would first reject Bok's explanation to retain the stock, and then ponder a response. It was largely a matter of which building would be taken, when and how. But it was no surprise: two Harvard policemen don't ordinarily spend nights in Massachusetts Hall. As Bok said of the previously delayed, now real, occupation. "We weren't exactly unaware of the possibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New New Mood | 4/22/1972 | See Source »

...bring back the designation Master for unmarried men and retain the Mr. for married men. Women's Libbers should like the idea of a man losing the title of Master upon becoming married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 10, 1972 | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...tenant farmer who can show that he is tilling a piece of land is entitled to take free possession of it, up to certain limits (7.5 acres in the vast Delta, 2½ acres in land-poor central South Viet Nam). Landlords are allowed to retain a maximum of 30 acres provided they work the land themselves or hire wage laborers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Courting the 800,000 | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

Some laws will likely be struck down, others rewritten to apply to both sexes equally. Married women could retain their names or take the names of their husbands. Alimony could be available to either spouse; child-custody laws that specify a preference for the mother could become invalid. Many of the protective labor laws might become invalid; banning women from certain jobs because of the possibility of pregnancy could also be forbidden. Laws against prostitution could be jeopardized unless the customer is also subject to penalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: One Giant Leap For Womankind | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...scene in the forties, musicals were presumed to be merely souped up dramas. Lyrics had to advance the plot and dances were expected to serve some dramatic function. Cabaret was one of the few musicals of the middle sixties to say that needn't be so. Although Cabaret did retain many vestiges of the traditional musical--it had a plot all right and its characters still sang their thoughts to each other whenever that plot hit a crucial junction--it also introduced seemingly non-integrated throwaway numbers that commented on the plot rather than advance it. It all looked innocent...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: So OK, Your Boyfriend's Bisexual, But Don't Take It Out on the Nazis | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

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