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Word: divorcee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps only a sophist might be tempted to tie the spread of air conditioning to the coincidentally rising divorce rate, but every attentive realist must have noticed that even a little window unit can instigate domestic tension and chronic bickering between couples composed of one who likes it on all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Great American Cooling Machine | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

Give Bishop Rausch an A for effort re his plan to avert divorce in Phoenix [July 16]. The Newark archdiocese has tried the same for five years with, at best spotty results. The fact is, the young and not so young lovers determined to marry are going to do so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1979 | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Roman Catholics wishing to be wed in Wisconsin have had to undergo a premarriage preparation period similar to the one required for residents of Phoenix. I have recently completed the "premarital inventory" with my fiance. We are 25 years old and have dated for 3½ years, and the process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1979 | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

The Shack's proprietor is hefty, fortyish Dana Montana, who at 23 lost her job as a Playboy Bunny because she was considered too old and haggard. For ten years Montana ran the Shack as a desultory go-go spot for males. Then in 1976 she decided to try...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And Now, Bring on the Boys | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Corinne Griffith, eightyish, star of silent movies (Black Oxen, 1924) and early talkies (Lilies of the Field, 1930); in Santa Monica, Calif. Griffith retired in 1932 to make a fortune in Beverly Hills real estate and to campaign for the repeal of the federal income tax, denying-in print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 6, 1979 | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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