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Word: haired (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students must follow a strict dress code in classes; men are required to wear shirts and ties and women must wear skirts or dresses. To pick up their monthly meal tickets, men must get the length of their hair checked, while women are required to wear brassieres and skirts of "modest length"--with a maximum slit of three inches. Culottes, decollete dresses and spaghetti straps are forbidden under the code, as are ankle bracelets because "they make the guys think you're from the wrong side of the tracks," Penny Petr, an ORU sophomore, jokes. "I know it sounds terrible...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: It's 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Students Are? | 11/2/1979 | See Source »

...College day began at sunrise with morning prayers and a breakfast of bread and beer. Students were never permitted to leave their rooms without their coat, gown or cloak, and the administration looked askance at students with long hair, curled hair, and even parted hair...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The College Reaches 343rd Birthday, But Nobody Celebrates--Or Even Knows | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...twenties, lean, slight, light-skinned, freckled, pale-eyed, sharp-faced. He wears round wire-rimmed spectacles like Bertolt Brecht's and a bush of red hair teased out as if in ongoing electrocution. His chin and lips are hairless. No hippie he, his clothes are rumpled but clean, plain, even severe: in Ambrose's phrase, he dresses like a minor member of the North Korean U.N. delegation...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Return To Sender | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...Touch. Got a firm bod? A squishy one? A squishy one that used to be firm? Does it hurt when you press anywhere? What parts of you jiggle? Where are your muscles clearly defined, where do your bones jut out? Is your skin rough, smooth, oily? Your hair wiry, downy, springy? Does your nose have a lump on it, what does your nose feel like to you? Mine feels like a piece of driftwood, hard but sanded smooth...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Too Much Knowledge | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

Weinberg said yesterday he first heard of his award when he was shaving with the radio on. "My hair stood on end when I heard the first report that 'one' American scientist had won," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Harvard Scientists Win Joint Nobel Prize in Physics | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

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