Word: staid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggested, was something that was practiced only by the golden boys and girls of the West Coast and duly celebrated in B movies, featuring beer, broads and orgies. But last week, from Maine to Miami, beaches with a rolling surf were bristling with the sleek Fiberglas slabs. The staid old resort of Narragansett, R.I., has found itself inundated by board-bearing interlopers, who have discovered that the once Brahmin beach has just the right kind of waves. On Long Island, where 40 surfboards were sold in 1960, 4,000 have been snapped up this year, with the season just under...
...days there had been an enormous amount of mysterious scurrying about at Buenos Aires' Plaza Hotel. It was most unusual, for the Plaza was the scene of a particularly staid and cerebral gathering: the 13th World Bridge Championship, among whose participants were some of the game's most polished players. They are normally a reserved and polite group. But there was reason for their excitability, and last week it came out in a terse, oblique communique from the World Bridge Federation...
...values, expectations, standards of living and ways of life can be totally different from what the American student has inherited and experienced." Its major goal is "development of character and motivation"-a sense of perspective. And it guarantees official deferment-draft exempt status-to the student who interrupts the staid and established sequence of academics with a year in the "real world...
...them out at the Americana, and strolling violins pierced the air in the Shalom Room of the Lee Hotel, which features its own synagogue. For the economy class, San Juan's hotel row has hatched two Red Rooster restaurants ("where corned beef and pastrami are king"); another, in staid Old San Juan, was discreetly latinized to El Gallo Rojo. This year there are Sunday bullfights in the Sixto Escobar Stadium-but no blood, as a concession to sensitive American tastes...
...women agree. "Any girl with a good figure will have a man around to protect her," sniffs a Johannesburg model. Other women protest that a bra holster makes them appear top-heavy on the portside. To which Britain's staid Tailor & Cutter added archly: "A couple of hand grenades would seem more esthetic." Joubert and Taylor are unworried. They have nothing to fear but the topless dress...