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Word: ri (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were no streetwalkers walking the streets of Marseille last week. Instead of accosting potential customers with the traditional invitation "Tu viens, chéri?" (Coming, darling?), the city's prostitutes were busy holding press conferences, leading demonstrations, and passing out pamphlets in support of a strike by the filles de joie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bodies in Distress | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...Paris was staring at it. The sight was scarcely avoidable. It appeared on 6,000 posters that the pop singer-composer had had plastered across the city's walls to promote his "Polnarevolution" show at the Olympia music hall. The posters showed the 28-year-old chéri of the Paris entertainment world in sunglasses, a woman's floppy hat, and a lacy shirt raised undemurely to reveal his derri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: L'Affaire Derri | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

...Harvard band ambled onto the field. "All ri-i-ight" roared the Harvard partisans. Bang. The band ran in every direction. "Are they supposed to do that?" Trevor asked. "Watch," his worldly colleague answered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petering Out | 10/26/1972 | See Source »

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