Word: sixish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should arrive is one of mankind's smaller but more persistent social problems. In New York and most other urban areas of the East, for example, an invitation for dinner at 8 really means 8:30; the hostess would be stunned, perhaps even destroyed, by prompt arrival. A "sixish" party at East Coast summer resorts seldom begins before 7-and guests are on time if they show up before midnight. In the West or Midwest, however, the time declared on an invitation normally means what it says, within five or ten minutes...
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