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Word: tonier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their firms, long considered upstart midtown outfits, were located in anonymous high-rise office buildings a $6 cab ride from the tonier downtown Wall Street firms. These firms disdained takeover work because of its past association with hungry and raffish conglomerateurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Those Guns for Hire | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...however, only nudity has reached epidemic proportions. The monokini, which first appeared in St.-Tropez two years ago has spread this year to the beaches of tonier Antibes, Juan-les-Pins and Sardinia. By now the fad has become so familiar that Le Figaro's food critic has commented that "a breast leaning into a local salad is as removed from sexuality as a nose, an ear or a heel bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Naked and the Med | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

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