Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It was part circus, part revival meeting, part convention. Most of the paying guests, according to Wilson, were hotel and shopping-center people and "the Who's Who of the theme-restaurant business." Theme restaurants have nothing to do with Ye Olde Tea Shoppes. These days quaint is a...
His sudden decision to normalize relations with China was another bold stroke beyond convention. His skillful orchestration of the Vienna summit, his firm but tender treatment of the ailing Leonid Brezhnev, appeared to signal that he was now trained and toughened and on the brink of stepping out of mediocrity...
She describes a Junior Chamber of Commerce convention, a group of stolid conventional young burghers who are genuinely puzzled by the furor around them. Why don't students want a Jaycee group on campus? Why can't the girl who takes a full page ad in Daily Variety to advertise...
The 700 convention members also discussed Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's (D-Mass) proposal for expanding the National Direct Student Loan program. Kennedy suggests that loans go from the banks to the parents instead of to the students. Kennedy also proposes that both the bank-to-student loan and the...
The issue was abortion, and the fight was supposed to have been settled in 1973 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state may not prevent a woman from having an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy until the fetus is presumably capable of "meaningful life outside...