Word: tottering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presented a somewhat unappealing image. But, consider that practically everyone back then, men too, was dressing in "proletarian garb." It just became fashionable to not wash your clothes, because who cared what we looked like? There was a cause to fight for. Women realized they no longer had to totter around in spike heels and in pants so tight they couldn't breathe--they realized they did not wish to be "desired" by men as sexually attractive beings. And don't forget the hotpants craze, which every woman, fat or thin, squeezed themselves into...
Nodding toward the Capitol chambers, Ehrlichman declared: "You can go over here in the gallery and watch a member totter onto the floor in a condition of at least partial inebriation. I think that is important for the American people to know. And if the only way it can be brought out is through his opponents in a political campaign, then I think that opponent has an affirmative obligation to bring that forward...
This revolutionary formula brought potent results. Saigon withdrew at the first upsurge in NLF militancy, and wide tracts of rural South Vietnam began to implement massive reforms under liberation force leadership. Diem and his handful of allies, trapped in the cities, began to totter...
...their notable acting strengths, the sheer likability of Michele Lee and Ken Howard is infectious. She is a warm, supple sprig of femininity; he is a tongue-tied Adam trying to invent a word for love. A playgoer ends up half wishing that the pair could swap their teeter-totter affair for the merry-go-round of marriage. · T.E. Kalem
...members of TIME'S Board of Economists-Otto Eckstein and Robert Nathan-favor placing farm prices under direct federal control. They warn that if food prices during March show anything like the February increase of 23% on an annual basis, the entire structure of Phase II may totter...