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Word: sew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guys would sometimes react favorably," Guyton recalls, "but the girls would always have really violent reactions. I would say to them. 'But I like to cook and sew.' And they would just yell at me. 'But you can't, you just can't do that...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: Captain of Two 'Cliffe Teams Talks About Women, Athletics | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

JEAN SAUVAGNARGUES, 59, Foreign Minister. Calm and smoothly professional, Sauvagnargues (pronounced sew-va-nyarg) should bring a sharp change in tone to French diplomacy. His predecessor, Michel Jobert, delighted in public jousting with Washington over oil and Middle East policy-a performance that Pompidou felt was necessary to please his restive Gaullist constituency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: No One Here But Us Liberals | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

Above $200 you enter the relm of racing bikes. These machines come close to the ultimate in light weight and performance. The frames are handmade of special alloy tubing, the tires are known as sew-ups, (very light with the tubes sewn inside). Having the tubes sewn inside makes them a real pain to patch, but there is no other way of making a tire as light (often less than 200 grams per tire) or as strong (racers ride with tire pressures well over 100 pounds per square inch), or as easy to change. While a bicycle like this...

Author: By David J. States, | Title: Bicycling: The People's Transportation | 3/26/1974 | See Source »

...game played earlier at Harvard's Watson Rink, the Crimson downed Exeter Academy 4-3. Exeter took a 1-0 lead in the first period, but the Crimson tallied one goal in the second stanza and three in the fourth to sew the game...

Author: By Elizabeth P. Eggert, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Stickmen Overwhelm Big Green, 6-2 | 2/28/1974 | See Source »

...First Lady's liberation views developed in Talla, Sadat's home town in the Nile delta. "A woman complained to me of the way her husband was treating her," Mrs. Sadat explained last week to TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn. "She told me he had sold her sewing machine for the money. I decided I must do something to help such women win respect and security, so they wouldn't be tyrannized by their husbands. I started a center for social development and helped the women to sew aprons for schools and for sale in shops. Now that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Egypt's Liberating First Lady | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

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