Word: schoolgirls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welfare last week urged the city to let pregnant girls finish the school term and to teach the need of prenatal care in the schools' "family life" courses. The board of education agreed to consider the idea-but openly wondered whether it would not invite an even higher schoolgirl pregnancy rate...
...drip-dry wardrobe. ("We would spend all night washing.") She had a keen and retentive mind, effortlessly stayed in the top tier of her classes. But she seemed to fear scaring her friends away by being both beautiful and bright, often hid her intelligence behind a mask of schoolgirl innocence. Recalls Socialite Jonathan Isham: "She was so much smarter than most of the people around her that she sublimated it. Therefore, she sometimes comes across as a wide-eyed, sappy type. It's pure defense. When I'd take her to the Yale Bowl...
Taken at the Flood, by John Gunther. The father of soap operas, schoolgirl complexions and singing commercials is given his due in this anecdote-laden biography of the late Adman Albert Lasker...
Taken at the Flood, by John Gunther. The father of soap operas, schoolgirl complexions and singing commercials is given his zestful due in this lively, anecdoteladen biography of the late Albert Lasker, the most formidable ad anthropos in Madison Avenue history...
...sweat suits, and Russians handing out bronze pins engraved with space Luniks. Long after midnight, officials found a Liberian marathoner, stop watch in hand, patiently plodding mile after mile. "It's quiet now," he explained, "and cool." In their practice sessions, tough Pakistanis played the American schoolgirl sport of field hockey with startling violence, Hungarians struck sparks with their shining sabers, bull-necked Turkish and Iranian wrestlers charged and grunted like affronted rhinos...