Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dauphin of France set a standard for the anti-gift when he presented the young Henry V with tennis balls, in insolent reference to his playboy reputation, and paid the price at Agincourt. Modern givers who want to choose an offensive present designed to break relations have a dizzyingly wide choice, ranging from a novelty ice tray that produces cubes in the form of nudes to a cookbook entitled something like The Favorite Southern Recipes of the Duchess of Windsor...
...accused of misdemeanors, some of which carry sentences as long or longer than felonies. In Arkansas, for example, a misdemeanor can call for imprisonment of as much as three years. Yet an American Bar Foundation study recently reported that when it came to providing counsel for misdemeanants, "wide variations in practice existed from one state to another and from one county to another in the same state." And the highest courts of Arkansas, Florida and Connecticut have flatly limited Gideon to felonies...
...seen whether the Georgia decision will mean a slackening of the effort to destroy the power of malapportioned, rural-dominated state governments. The Court has already thrown out Georgia's county unit system, which assigned counties of wildly disproportionate population the same weight in deciding a state-wide election, and effectively gave the state's farm areas many times the political power of the more populous urban centers...
Roll collar granny prints epaulets mitotic paisley double-breasted checks shiny hankie serpent tie four buttons bouffant Tom Jones sleeves French cuffs wide leather belt suede spade polka dot high rise plaid low rise dress non-dress stovepipe pinstripe bell-bottom subtle trumpet blaring--these clothes are moving, the whole store is moving. The music pounding out from the radio baby baby baby while these clothes whirl you around and around...
...real freedom, according to the Mods. "Like, everybody should have a couple of different bags," says Larry. So clamber out of the tweed bag, baby. Mod can be creative. "I don't believe in this color combination bit," says Larry as he touches his wide tie, blue polka dots on a green background. "The other day I had on a plaid vest, a granny print shirt and paisley bell-bottoms. Everyone knows you don't wear plaid and paisley and granny print together. But it was groovy. I was digging the patterns...