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Word: sweeting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clad only in surgical masks, two men dashed through a packed amphitheater where Harvard students were taking a first-year anatomy exam. Watching from his front porch, the president of Virginia's elegant Sweet Briar College gallantly applauded as 50 of his coeds sprinted by adorned only in their class years, lipsticked on in an approximate license-plate position. On busy U.S. Route 1, traffic was brought to a cheerful standstill by 533 University of Maryland students chain-dancing au naturel. With astonishing swiftness, streaking, the art of the point-to-point dash in the buff, has burgeoned into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Streaking, Streaking Everywhere | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...work. She said that in high school her identity was cast in purely social terms. "It hinged upon how pretty I was, how many friends I had, and how many boys I went out with," she said. "There was a real dichotomy between the smart, successful woman and the sweet feminine...

Author: By Marni Sandweiss, | Title: The Tensions of Feminist Art | 3/14/1974 | See Source »

...Tigers, the victory meant sweet revenge. In early February, they had been annihilated by Harvard, 82-31, claiming victories only in diving. By Saturday night's end, they had settled that score...

Author: By Dennis P. Corbett, | Title: Tigers Nip Swimmers in Eastern Meet | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...name of sweet reason, let's not have "public financing" for election campaigns [Feb. 18]! Not only do we pay very high salaries to those gentlemen who represent us in Washington, but now they even want the taxpayers to pay for their job hunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS: Letters, Mar. 11, 1974 | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...film's idiom, and still form an expressive language--this could be a children's film. Or an old Hollywood picture, in the good sense of recalling simple emotions buried since a wide-eyed and easily-swayed childhood. When the kid grins and drools drunkenly, it's sweet...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Join the Navy and See the World | 3/7/1974 | See Source »

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