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Word: virgination (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tell you about the best beach in the Virgin Islands, or where to get a great pina colada. But by Wednesday I knew New Jersey's great airports pretty well. Don't pay a dollar to park in the Morristown lot; there are free spaces fifty yards further on. And try the grilled cheese and tomato in Manny's Cockpit Restaurant. Can't get anything like it on Antigua...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Thumbing the Friendly Skies | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

...much impressed," Hunter said. "Just think, last week the girls were all lounging In Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, and the Carribean and today they still ran tough...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: 'Cliffe Track Loses With Record Times | 4/14/1977 | See Source »

...THOMAS, VIRGIN ISLANDS: The short runway at the Harry Truman Airport gives jet pilots too little margin for error, and was blamed for the crash of an American Airlines jet last year. Construction of a runway extension has not yet begun, though federal funds have been made available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Rating the world's Airports | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...Holy Family. On each Holy Thursday, Father Jose Marins Registo brings from the church an image of Jesus bearing the cross to Calvary. Followed by children dressed as angels, he parades through the streets to the main square, where he meets a second procession displaying an image of the Virgin Mary. On Good Friday there is another procession and a symbolic burial, after which the priest carries a cross from house to house for the people to kiss. On Easter Sunday, as on the days before, the whole town goes to Mass and most of the 6,000 inhabitants hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics Who Celebrate Passover | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...Victorian grandiloquent, and the burden of his remarks is composed of snippets from the Great Books and library paste. Wren cannot even make a kinky pass at his secretary without providing footnotes: "Dante finds Beatrice in heaven, on one side of the Lord, with none other than the Virgin on his other hand. Think of that, a trinity in which two of the elements are female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loopy Locutions | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

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