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Word: twentyish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Engaged. Richard Harris, 43, lusty Irish actor (This Sporting Life, Camelot) and occasional singer (MacArthur Park); and Anne Turkel, twentyish, former fashion model from Scarsdale, N.Y., who met and played opposite Harris last fall in her first film, 99 and 44/100 Percent Dead. This will be his second, her first marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 21, 1974 | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...that Walter Reuther got thrown on his head off of?" interrupted the mid-twentyish man behind the desk. We nodded, and he pulled out a map and sketched out the route to the bridge...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, | Title: Battle of River Rouge: Reuther's Struggle | 7/6/1973 | See Source »

Died. Frasier, twentyish, veteran circus lion who earned nomination as 1972's National Father of the Year; after a brief illness; in Laguna Hills, Calif. Despite advancing age and a lengthy layoff from circus duties, Frasier returned to show business by fathering 35 lion cubs in an 18-month period. The feat won accolades from a legion of senior citizens, who adopted him as their mascot, and a lion's share of royalties for his owners, Lion Country Safari, Inc., from Frasier T shirts, watches and barbecue aprons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 24, 1972 | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

...still doesn't get across, and he won't get anywhere until he learns to join the human race." Wilson, 54, may strike many Britons as occasionally pompous, but Heath too often comes across as downright prissy; he nearly blushed purple the other day when two twentyish birds stopped him on a street to ask what he intended to do about the exorbitant price of "panty tights." His hobbies are playing classics on the organ, and sailing a sleek racing yacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Lesser Evil? | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

...story is a Nineteen-Twentyish drawing-room comedy that concentrates on a ménage-à-trois: tycoon, wife and mistress. The other woman is the wife of the tycoon's business associate who has already bedded the tycoon's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, The Girls Are Marching | 5/25/1970 | See Source »

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