Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laundress. Midwestern men favor suits the color of plowed cornfields. The Western states bloom with cowboy boots and ten-gallon hats. The California style, however, draws out the best in Lurie: ''Clothes tend to fit more tightly than is considered proper elsewhere, and to expose more flesh. . . Virtuous working-class housewives may wear outfits that in any other part of the country would identify them as medium-priced whores." Children's clothing conveys different kinds of signals, Lurie believes. Working-class children don suits and fancy dresses for a weekend outing. The middle-class kids...
President Bok called the quick fund raising testimony to a "virtuous man" and said Harvard had done something shape Halberstam, who was killed when he surprised a burglar late last fall...
...girls. And they obviously approve of its moral message, which is the centerpiece of this movie. They never spent hot nights in the suburbs, feeling the horniness that comes as much from boredom as passion. They share the movie's idea that young love is powerful, but they are virtuous enough to know its temptations should be resisted...
...true that virtuous women are seldom accosted-by virtuous men. It's the other kind who give a girl a hard time...
...large, red book called "All in Color for a Dime," a discussion of early comics which begins, "What shapes a people...." And inside the front cover is the Quincy House seal, bearing Josiah Quincy's own signature and the House motto: "Discretio Moderatrix Virtutum"--"Prudence governs the virtuous...