Word: maidening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life, the young male gnome begins dreaming of finding a gnome just like the gnome who married dear old dad. After building a home for his family-to-be in the roots of a large tree, the male asks the father of the blushing, young and preferably plump maiden for his daughter's hand in marriage. Gnomes enjoy a stable home life, with twin baby gnomes soon coming to the young couple. There are no problems of women's liberation for the gnomes--mother, father and the little gnomes all have their roles to play and they play them without...
...soon as he arrived in Washington in 1949, Humphrey started tossing firecrackers again. In his maiden speech he announced that he had come to shake things up. "What the people want is for the Senate to function," he declared. "Sometimes I think we become so cozy -we feel so secure in our six-year term -that we forget that the people want things done." He spoke on every subject at every opportunity. "I can't help it," he explained. "It's glands...
...ACTION, which oversees such volunteer programs as the Peace Corps and VISTA, but Mrs. Murray sternly ruled that King be listed simply-and only-as the wife of Peter Bourne, special assistant to the President. In the Green Book, married women are never allowed to be listed under their maiden names; that would give the Wrong Idea. Divorcing couples are barred from the register until their legal tangles are settled. But because the Green Book also serves as a protocol guide and automatically lists anyone ranked Assistant Secretary and up, an exception had to be made in order to include...
...overeating is a substitute for her sex drive, says Beller. The fact is her cravings for food and fun exist simultaneously. Now that Beller has established that fat is where it's at, all those chubbies on starvation diets can relax and say, with John Dryden's Maiden Queen, "I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty...
...hapless bachelor she can catch. Finally, at Daisy Mae's insistence, Cartoonist Al Capp hisself makes a rare appearance in the strip to schedule the prenuptial foot race for Nov. 26. Snorts a disgusted Li'l Abner: "Ha!-Any day is okay when an-ugh! -Dogpatch maiden kin ketch-sob!-a Dogpatch bachelor...