Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hollywood bid ("It always sounds glamorous when you're young"), and she responded. Soon she was making The Fountainhead with Gary Cooper. Those long deep looks at Cooper, still remembered viscerally by every man who saw the picture, were remembered most by Cooper himself, who for a time shed his marital responsibilities, ripped off his merit badges, and fell head-over-spurs in love, beginning one of those muted Olympian affairs that everyone knows about but few discuss...
...gangs still fought, but their hearts weren't in it. Their small crimes continued-"scrumping in orchards and gardens, letting ourselves in and out of the park keeper's shed to make a cup of tea"-but "criminal boys" lost their prestige to "romantic boys," and the romantics all formed rock groups. The local fish and chips joint, "the chippy on the turf," lost its glamour-everybody wanted to go home to listen to Elvis records. Meetings and war councils were delayed so the fellows could catch the rock show on the telly...
...Cliffies shed their ear muffs this spring, they will expose themselves to a dread disease which has become an annual epidemic in Radcliffe yard. The illness causes a temporary insanity, an overwhelming urge to mutilate one's own body. Girls usually satisfy this masochistic drive by puncturing the lobes of both their ears...
...Philippine dance, and the object is to see what deft steps you can pull off while hopping in and out between the two rhythmically clapping bamboo poles. So while he was over at the Philippine embassy in Washington to accept an award, Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, 48, gamely shed shoes and tried his foot at it. He even managed a smile when a spectator sport heckled: "Go under it, man! Limbo...
Dicey, Mumbo and Sheikie were bosomless chums at St. Agatha's, an all-too-proper girls' school in the south of England. They carried on like so many Peck's bad boys in bloomers, planted a gelignite bomb in a bicycle shed, conned free rides in horse-drawn victorias, raced down High Street frothing at the mouth with lemon sherbet powder to convince townspeople that they were possessed by devils. But their biggest adventure in that ill-fated summer of 1914 came the night they buried a coffer of "valuable treasure"-dog chains, bones, a message...