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Word: womanized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the applause and cheers was some harsh heckling from a woman partisan of I.R.A. prisoners who are currently engaged in a "dirt strike," a euphemism for a protest in which they wear no clothes and refuse sanitary facilities. Later Thatcher helicoptered to the British army's most beleaguered Irish outpost, Crossmaglen, a heavily fortified and often attacked base in an area notorious for I.R.A. activity. Her speedy show of the flag in Ulster met with a sturdy rebuff from the I.R.A. Said a statement from the Provos: "The Iron Maiden's declaration of war is nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: A Nation Mourns Its Loss | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...applicant was a woman who simply wanted to hang a license in her bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Battling Shrinks | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...starved, tethered donkeys outside suffering while the fat ones ate, and the thirsty chickens dashing for a chance to peck at our spit." In the river town of Gelhak he records the visual cacophony in Polaroid prose: "We saw a man with a monkey's nose; and a woman whose feet were reversed, her toes pointing back wards. More turbans and tarbooshes now, more Arabs, as well as the eggplant-black Dinkas, and purple Nuer with carved stripes that circled their foreheads under the hairline, and Shilluk with beadlike cicatrices stretching from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pink Spider | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...Woman of Substance, Bradford 10. Tinsel, Goldman

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Decadence is a wonderfully versatile idea-like a perfume that gives off different scents depending on a woman's body chemistry and heat. It arouses pleasure, disgust and bombast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Fascination of Decadence | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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