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Word: richer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their male counterparts-king, sir and master-have escaped. Sometimes Miller and Swift's complaints are plain silly. The authors sniff linguistic oppression in the fact that women are said to "marry into" families; the same thing, of course, is said of men when they hitch up to richer or more prominent clans. Prince Phillip "married into" the British royal family. Sargent Shriver did the same to the House of Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Father Tongue | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

Above the horizon, the Martian sky looked surprisingly bright*-evidence, say some scientists, that the atmosphere is richer than expected in light-diffusing particles. In the sky was a shadow- perhaps a cloud composed of water vapor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Mars: The Riddle of the Red Planet | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...caption for a nude photo. Meanwhile, Movie Stars Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood won a suit against Reveille, a British picture magazine that had claimed they were headed for a second divorce. "We are very happily married," asserted Wagner as he and the missus left court. And happily richer, as was the princess. Amounts of the judgments were not disclosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 5, 1976 | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

...more humiliating aspects. But he has also rammed ahead with the Bantustan program of geographical separation by which South Africa will be broken up into racial enclaves. Blacks will be pushed into ten cramped tribal areas, which may eventually become sovereign states; whites will retain control of the richer farm lands, mining lands and urban areas, in which South African blacks will be classed as foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Vorster: Man on a Wagon Train | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...School. If you fall into the second category--say you're taking Chem S-20 and are fleshing out your free time with Physics S-12--forget it: you'll be out of the bars and off the streets starting shortly. For the rest of us, well, we're richer than about 95 per cent of everyone in our country, and it's even rumored that if anyone cared to compute the figures, the net national income of the Summer School student body is greater than that of Bolivia...

Author: By Seth Kaplan and James I. Kaplan, S | Title: Getting around the Square | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

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