Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...computer chess player turned out by Fidelity Electronics nearly three years ago. Back then it seemed remarkable that a tiny computer could play chess at all, even though its play was less than brilliant. Now the chess ability of the reprogrammed chip is high enough to make any parlor wood-pusher loosen his collar and roll up his sleeves, and it is the machine's distinctly machine-like speech that is the dazzling gimmick. Turn the doodad on, and it says, dropping each word like a cinder block, "I- am- Fidelity's - Chess - Challenger - your -computer - opponent...
...October 30, Cambridge Police raided "Le Club," a parlor located at 79 Cambridge St., after a number of people protested its opening. The Cambridge City Council had passed an ordinance restricting the operation and licensing of massage parlors in the city one day earlier...
...feel like the Ayatollah Khomeini in a massage parlor," the man said. The audience of 550 people in the kennedy School of Government's Kennedy Forum hit the floor. Bob Hope had come to Harvard...
...family affair, with Kennedy, a meat-and-potatoes man, sometimes acting as chef. A favorite: steaks with lots of Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. He drinks wine with his meals and takes a Scotch and soda or two at night. After dinner he often plays charades or other parlor games with the children until about 9:30, when he turns to his attache case for bedtime reading...
Then on Tuesday, two policemen dressed up as construction workers and walked into Le Club, an East Cambridge massage parlor which opened up about two weeks...