Word: apricot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next stalwart to stride to the plate was aging, lecherous old Wilful S. Foulfellow, his eyes burning in the apricot sun. He could barely reach the plate. But he managed to lash a whistling bunt to the catcher. When the dust had died down Foulfellow stood on first, Pratt stood on second, and the henna sun stood...
Because he is bored with his own, he calls himself by many names: "The Old Man of the Apricot Orchard," "Hut on Chieh Shan Mountain," "The Man Long Separated from the Studio of Eight Ink Stones." But in China last week any of those names, signed with slender strokes upon a painting, were immediately recognizable as belonging to Ch'ih Pai-shih, China's most popular living artist...
...five years in office. Bob Sproul is still going strong after 17, and it is not for lack of other offers ("They're getting to be a nuisance"). Sproul has declined the presidency of the Anglo California National Bank (at $50,000), the presidency of the Prune and Apricot Growers, the directorship of Selective Service, candidacy for the Republican nomination for senator and governor. His biggest temptation came last January...
...neon palette of Marchand's Picasso-period had given way to a cool palette of forest hues: grey-green, apricot, lavender, smoky-blue. Marchand now talks violently against Surrealism ("It's good only for decorating the windows of American butcher shops") and believes that French painting is about to leave restless intellectualism and return to nature...
Henry VIII believed that his new bride, Anne Boleyn, was comparable to the finest products of the royal orchards-"a wife with a strawberry breath, cherry lips, apricot cheeks, and a soft velvet head like a melicotton [peach]." But old Farmer Brocke insisted that the new Queen was actually the daughter of Old Nick, as was proved by the fact that she had a mole shaped like a strawberry on her white neck, and sometimes touched it with her left hand-on which grew a rudimentary sixth finger. Farmer Brocke believed that King Henry had married a witch...