Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...step up to the $250 window and bet a bundle at Keeneland, the racecourse in Lexington, Ky. Nor did she twirl any lariats when she visited a splendid cowboy supply shop in Sheridan, Wyo. (pop. 15,146), or shout "Yippee-yi-o-ay-yay" at her home away from home on the range. Nonetheless, to the eager people who got a glimpse of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and Defender of the Faith, during her trip through the American heartland last week, her mere presence was showy enough. "She's approachable," marveled Bud Precise, a Methodist minister...
...died after the two ships of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition in search of the Northwest Passage were trapped by thick ice near Canada's remote Beechey Island. Over the next year, the 129 men on board struggled to survive, setting up a supply shop and smithy on the frozen tundra, but all eventually perished. Now that he has recovered three bodies, Beattie says, scientists can try to learn whether it was scurvy, toxins in the food or merely despair that killed the stranded crew...
Just weeks into the first year that IBM personal computers (PCs) have been strongly recommended for first-year Business School students, about 10 percent of the machines sold by the B-School have been sent to the shop for repairs...
...customary Western distinctions between art and handicraft. "In the dreamlike language of fashion," he believes, "a people are communicating the current ideals, values and aspirations of their culture." That idea may be refuted; it may be bought wholesale, on time or at closeout; but the best place to window-shop while thinking it over is this shrewd and knowing introduction to a closet revolution...
...boys are reared. "Feminists," notes Klein, "have been devoted to strengthening the lives of daughters, largely by adopting male traits. But we have neglected to prepare boys to be the mates of liberated daughters by fostering some feminine traits. Mothers agitate more to get their daughters admitted to a shop class or a ball team than they do to get sons into a sewing or dance group...