Word: uprightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pert and brunette, Mary sends a grin across her face in waves, and her 120 Ibs. are settled into a luscious 36-24-36 configuration that has male viewers sitting upright in their reclining chairs. Yet hardly a real-life wife objects. Instead, they take notes. And when she began delighting TV Hubby Dick Van Dyke by wearing Capri slacks, it helped make Capri slacks the biggest trend in U.S. casual attire...
...Times has been as good as Reimer's word. In one movie ad, the picture of a couple in passionate horizontal embrace was rotated 90° and ran vertically in the Times-in compliance with the paper's upright code. Another ad filled with misspelled suggestion ran in the Times one day-and was censored the next. Copy plugging a movie title, The Cave Girls, read "See What the Girls Did 50,000 B.C. (Before Clothes) (Costumes by Mother Nature)"-but only in Hearst's Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. In the Times the ad came...
...Josephus was sent to defend the region of Galilee. Though nearly all his troops deserted him, Josephus made a stubborn last stand in the cliff-perched city of Jotapata. The garrison held out for 47 blood-soaked days against a vastly superior Roman force commanded by Vespasian, the earthy, upright soldier who had earlier helped conquer Britain...
...greatness flicker,/And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,/And in short, I was afraid"), he apparently scarcely knew its exhilarations. Though he was born in St. Louis, the son of a wholesale grocer, his roots ran back to New England and the upright Unitarianism of his clergyman grandfather. At Harvard, he dabbled in Sanskrit and Oriental religions, wrote his dissertation on the philosophy of F. H. Bradley. Prufrock, that lament of the aging, was published in his 20s. Looking back, the hunger for faith in Eliot's early poems now seems obvious...
Bilodeau tried three running plays, and on fourth down John Yovicsin sent in Dullea to try a 45-yard field goal. The wind was with him, and the kick was almost good; the ball bounced off the right upright just where the crossbar meets the upright...