Word: snugly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loaders who keep the guns charged, can cost about $25,000 a week. Even a week's stay at a modest inn costs more than $4,000. Then there is the required costume: "plus twos" (knickerbockers), heavy woolen socks, cleated gum boots, a Husky weatherproofed coat and a snug tweed cap. The sportsman also needs evening clothes and funds for the native libation. And the gun must have his guns, preferably a pair of 12-gauge double-barreled sidelock ejectors from London's Purdey James & Sons or Holland & Holland. A shotgun costs as much as $22,500; gunsmiths...
...society with a not so distant feudal past. Changes are slowly taking place, but disciplined workers still display an almost mystical loyalty to their companies, and paternalistic employers reciprocate by guaranteeing job security. Leaders of business, banking and government are members of a unitary elite, and they have a snug relationship...
Zones Three, Four and Five exist side by side in descending order, both geographically and culturally. Three is mountainous, its inhabitants refined almost beyond fleshly desires; they have become too snug and self-sufficient even to remember the denizens of Zone Four, a primitive militaristic empire in the lowlands. They know the nomads in the desert of Zone Five only as rumors. But these separate regions have become united in a single problem: the birth rate among humans and animals has fallen off; a sense of sadness and stagnation envelops the lands. So the Providers who administer the galaxy issue...
...Where were you in 1970?" Gloria Steinem asks in her introduction to The Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the Seventies. If you were a woman between the ages of 18 and 64 in 1970, you probably were not where the FBI thought you were: that is, snug at home in your kitchen making dinner for your husband and 3.3 children. In the real world, by 1970, 50 per cent of the female population worked full-time outside the home. Forty out of 100 of those women had been divorced at least once. And the majority wanted to have...