Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amateurs high marks for their skills at play-fighting. Said Lieut. Bill Bradburn, 25, a field-artillery officer: "Some of them are amazingly adept. They have a tremendous grasp of some of the theory and doctrine that is taught in the Army. They keep very current. Some of them seem to have a steady information pipeline to the active military." But Bradburn also detected a weakness in the civilians' knowledge of artillery tactics - which his team was about to exploit...
...served him well in his campaign but have demonstrated limited ability at the national level. (No Administration in recent memory has been so close to the mid-term mark with so few significant personnel changes as Carter's has.) Finally, his deep moralism and evangelistic background at times seem to have persuaded him that it is enough to preach the good word or introduce the good program without having to follow through with hard political pressures...
When the doors open at 10 each morning, the hopeful come crowding into what looks like a hall of mirrors, jostling for places at gambling tables and slot machines that seem to stretch to infinity. Grimly determined to beat the odds, the players have been pouring huge amounts of money into the casino's coffers. This is Atlantic City, and it is booming beyond the most optimistic expectations...
...HOLLYWOOD is going to have any influence on the women's movement, it would seem we are in a heap of trouble. There seems to be a new variety of male chauvinism afoot, in fact. Only this time around the male directors of films such as Coming Home, An Unmarried Woman and Dear Inspector, for the European version of feminism, are using more subtle tactics than having John Wayne sweeping some broad off her feet. They are choosing instead to try and let women do themselves in, while their male counterparts sit back, calm, cool and liberated...
...medium in their marriages. The most obvious sign of conflict can be seen in the startlingly low figures for the number of babies which have been born to women of the late '60s generation. There have been only seven births in the Radcliffe Class of '68, and this trend seems to be continuing. Since women and men are not yet sure how to balance careers and children, they have done the obvious, which is, for the meantime, to stop having children. There have been enough articles written on the question of children, and modern day women to fill any feminist...