Word: trampsing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At a typical meeting in Vestaburg (pop. 950), Pa., the room was so thick with smoke that the people in back could hardly see the district president up front. As the debate wore on, miners from time to time slipped out into the raw morning air to spit out tobacco...
Comparing them to the American women I was travelling with brought to mind an article I had read on the attitudes of Arab men toward Western women. The writer claimed that Arab men generally see them as, in a word, tramps; maybe candidates for seduction but never marriage. The men...
Sensible Shoes. In effect, Lacey has treated Elizabeth as a minor character in a Jane Austen novel. An "unassuming mother of four" who dotes on a "quiet life in the country surrounded by horses and dogs," she tramps over for tea in her sensible shoes and serves modestly to swell...
Voilà, the disco band. No disco band works harder or more regularly than an eleven-man combo from Philadelphia called the Trammps. Six years ago, when the vagabond image seemed a good idea, the members of the group wore dungarees and dubbed themselves the Tramps. Later, when they decided...
Eaves has pushed a number of new tactics, with the help of federal funds from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. A squad of cops disguised as tramps and winos was set up to lure muggers, and high-crime areas were assigned a special force of additional patrolmen. Says Eaves: "We...