Word: tramped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Houses, tutors have to go there too. Most of the Houses have as many tutors as they can stand now, and several Masters have indicated they will not take any more. In the smaller fields, there is no reason why tutors affiliated with a House should have to tramp back and forth between the Houses and the Quad when they could handle mixed groups in the Houses, but in the popular Radcliffe fields, such as English, History and Lit, and Social Relations, there would be girls left over after the Houses had taken all they could...
Holly Golightly, 18, is a cross between a grown-up Lolita and a teen-age Auntie Mame. A piquantly wacky ex-hillbilly who lives in a Manhattan upper East Side brownstone, she is a kind of expense-account tramp; as she puts it in her own countdown, "I've only had eleven lovers...
...Songstress Bergen's idea of emotion is a throaty quaver and a kind of asthmatic gasp. The effect is disconcertingly in evidence on the first side of the album, but side 2 makes up the balance with a finely swinging Lucky Day, a bubbly The Lady Is a Tramp...
...enterprisers of Gwadar took to their dhows to keep Karachi's shops well filled with the restricted items. When the Pakistanis tried to check the flow with a fleet of patrol boats, the smugglers installed powerful diesel engines in their dhows, sped to secret rendezvous with mysterious tramp steamers far offshore, then raced for the Gateway of Winds faster than Pakistan customs launches could follow. From Gwa-.dar the smuggled stuff poured into Pakistan's markets by camel train, fishing boats and trailers pulled by souped-up Chevrolets along the sandy beaches...
...killed in earthquake, boy helps pay for funeral. It is lovely, almond-eyed France Nuyen (the Liat of the movie version of South Pacific) who goes farthest toward saving the show with her high-heeled stance, her eloquent hips and her intelligent impersonation of a tough but dreamy little tramp. Director Josh Logan is unworried. After opening night he was overheard saying: "This is the kind of play that even the people who talk against it will make people want to see it. They'll say, 'It's a lousy story of a damn whorehouse.' What...