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Word: skirted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young girls had on a very short skirt, and when she lay down, a gunman told her to cover herself up. 'We're not interested in that,' he said. 'I have three beautiful wives.' They had this thing about cleanliness. They told the men they had to sit to go to the bathroom, so they wouldn't splash urine around. They had the male hostages clean up the toilets. There was one girl who wet her pants. The gunmen told a B'nai B'rith man to clean the floor, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: And I Hadn't Typed My Will' | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...interior was spacious but its decor was neutral. Chiang Ch'ing was wearing a superbly tailored shirtwaist dress of heavy crepe de chine, with a full pleated skirt falling to midcalf, a style evocative of our early 1950s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Comrade Chiang Ch'ing Tells Her Story | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...designs, many using hand-dyed hospital gauze, are simple and versatile: for example, a pimento handkerchief-style dress that can go to the beach in the morning and the disco at night. Linda Somers, 33, works in chamois and deerskin. Her clothes are expensive: her black deerskin tiered skirt costs $230, her chamois bathing suit $50 and chamois beach cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Unbuckled Sunbelt Look | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...spirit of the day varied from those who embarassingly hid their newly bought gifts under brown paper bags to one who scorned the bag and carried cards to match her red boots, sweater and candy striped skirt...

Author: By Lisa C. Hsia, | Title: Sentimental Students Love Valentine's Day Romance | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

...plane in Washington, Carter carried his bags again, but the transformation had already begun. At the Kennedy Center that night, the audience-in evening dress-stood to applaud as the Carter family entered, Jimmy in a subdued black tuxedo and ruffled shirt, Rosalynn in a long red skirt and black blouse, and Amy in a red juniper. With pleased grins, they settled into the plush seats of the presidential box for the glittering, 2½-hr. 1977 New Spirit Inaugural Concert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INAUGURATION: WALTZING INTO OFFICE | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

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