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Word: slit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lipstick and miniskirts have been condemned as vestiges of the defeated capitalist society. Young men have been pressured to trim their long hair, while girls have been urged to wear "clothes that are simple and not stimulating." As a result, more Saigon women these days are wearing the traditional slit-skirt ao-dai, which, ironically, many Westerners regarded as extremely stimulating indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: Fading Smiles | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

Unglossed with second thoughts or self-justifications, Wilson's impressions sometimes recall the heartless mirth of an otherwise very dissimilar writer of the period, Evelyn Waugh. If friends got divorced, or somebody disappeared, or a girl slit her wrist with the top of a spaghetti can-well, the other revelers could not pause too long over the misfortune lest they lose their grip and go under too. Wilson himself almost did. In 1929 he suffered a nervous breakdown, probably from the cumulative strain of deadlines and tangled romances. While in the sanitorium he became addicted briefly to the drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Salad Days | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

...streets, lined with pawnshops, surplus-clothing stores and aging apartment hotels, were uncommonly empty. In the past eight weeks, seven middle-aged men, most of them down-and-outers, had been found in doorways, alleyways and cheap hotel rooms within the l-sq.-mi. Skid Row area, their throats slit deeply from ear to ear-and the killer had always struck on Wednesdays or weekends. Los Angeles police call him the Slasher; some vagrants of the neighborhood have dubbed him the Head Chopper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Skid Row Slasher | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...struck, but this time some six miles from Skid Row. The eighth victim, George Frias, 45, a catering-service secretary, was found in his modern first-floor Hollywood apartment on distant North Kingsley Drive, but he had worked near where the other victims were slain. His throat, too, was slit. A ninth man, also presumed to be a victim of the Slasher, was discovered two days later less than a mile away in another Hollywood apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Skid Row Slasher | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...kind of austere efficiency, doing away with the symbolic bar which might have dignified counsel, but fastidiously erecting pontifical stations for the court officers, where the gavel-equipped crew has achieved a sort of porcine grandeur. The only gothic element of the courtroom consists in long and severe, slit-like windows. The wind is forever howling among the tall buildings that hold up Government Center, but it is hardly a tragic sound, and occasionally, when the beefy officer with the jowls like the Verrazanno Bridge shuffles to the back of the room to open a certain window, you can hear...

Author: By Phillp Weiss, | Title: Odd Visages at the Edelin Trial | 2/5/1975 | See Source »

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