Word: wee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...price of each card for its effort. To help manufacturers boost sales of everyday products, N.S.M.C. "reps" place soft-sell posters on strategically located bulletin boards. In one such campaign, Alka-Seltzer offered to send a "cramming pillow-it allows you to cram effortlessly until the wee hours" to anybody who sent...
...Thames would be quite an adjustment for anybody. Added to that was the pressure of starting work on her second major film role in Secret Ceremony. So Mia Farrow, 23, had a problem. It got out of hand after Mia, in her mini mini, danced until the wee hours at a Burton party at London's Dorchester Hotel, then turned up absent from the scene next morning. After a couple of days, the film makers dispatched an emissary to a private psychiatric clinic in Middlesex. No Mia, and a clinic spokesman refused to say whether she had been there...
...easier viewing. To prevent any possible confusion about which are the remains to be seen, each window has a drop-in name plaque. "This is the glass age," says Thornton, explaining the convenience of the arrangement for both his customers and himself. "Families often come by in the wee hours of the morning, and you have to get up for them," he adds a bit defensively, "and this will also make it easier for elderly people, who can just sit in the car. There's no need to dress up this way, either." Nor need friends of the family...
Bill and Bob Cleary began their hockey careers early. Their father, a linesman in the National Hockey League for 20 years, encouraged them to take up the sport before they were five years old. Because there was no pee-wee league competition then, Mr. Cleary taught his sons the fundamentals of the game on iced-over ponds during their elementary educatioi at Shady Hill School, Neither brother played on a hockey team until tenth grade at Belmont Hill High School, where they both made all-New England prep school honors before moving on to Harvard...
...Ewing may have to bide a wee longer before the 1707 Act of Union making England and Scotland one nation is dissolved. National Party members number an insignificant 60,000 of Scotland's 4,800,000 inhabitants, but they have doubled in strength each year since 1963. Their growing following is symptomatic of the stirrings within the realm that 19th century English Clergyman-Critic Sydney Smith dismissed contemptuously as "that garret of the earth, that knuckle-end of England, that land of Calvin, oat-cakes and sulphur." After dour decades of stagnation, the Scots are surging forward with...