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Word: wig (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tall mean queen appeared, primed to drive me out into the night. Sitting in her isolated booth, she cast hostile glances at everyone in the restaurant. As our eyes met I jerked away in fear and applied renewed attention to my place mat. As she attacked her order, her wig came askew. The nextlook in my direction was so full of violence that I could almost feel a blow. Tossing a bill on the table, I dragged my near comatose roommate...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: After Midnight: Where Wild Things Go | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

...name it, I've won it," says the seventyish lady in silver harlequins as she tugs at her champagne-colored, pixie-style wig and smoothes the fabric of her hot-pink shift. Mrs. Diane Haley is standing in the kitchen of her tropical green bungalow in Clearwater, Fla., surrounded by prizes: brown vinyl reclining chairs, rattan porch furniture, a turquoise side-by-side refrigerator-freezer, a hairy purple stuffed dog, a pair of TV sets-stacked one atop the other-two imitation art nouveau lamps. An avocado-colored Ford Maverick Grabber parked in the driveway and the gold-patterned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Contest Winner's Road to Shoppertunity' | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

After Judge Eidson made those rulings, a gunman wearing a black wig broke into the Davis mansion. He wounded Priscilla and a friend, "Bubba" Gavrel, and murdered her lover, ex-Basketball Player Stan Farr, and her daughter by a previous marriage, twelve-year-old Andrea Wilborn. Four hours later, police arrested Davis at his girlfriend's home and charged him with being the gunman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who Do You Want Next? | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...customer wanted. For her to put out her hand, take a piece of paper, slice off a chunk of cheese and weigh it could take a quarter of an hour. If you asked her the cost, she began to mull it over and scratch under her wig with a hairpin. If the customer bought on credit and Zeldele marked down the amount, she couldn't make out later what she had written. When the war came and German marks ... came into use, she grew completely bewildered. Eli abused her in front of the customers and called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Singer's Song of the Polish Past | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...World War II and regularly made the operatic grand tour during the 1950s. At New York's Metropolitan Opera he was popular as Scarpia in Tosca and as Don Giovanni. Despite his success, he complained that "this business of dressing up in a silly costume, putting on a wig and paint on the face and getting killed or poisoned or drunk every night" made for a less than ideal profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 5, 1977 | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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