Word: apricot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Apricot blossoms vie with each other to cheer your feats...
...aortas congealing into hockey pucks a la S. J. Perelman, she always has more food ready than any undernourished victim of Harvard cooking could eat in weeks. And because my grandmother is a Syrian Jew, it's delightfully exotic food--stuffed grape leaves, soups with unpronouncable names and apricot desserts. But the food aside, visiting the relatives is part and parcel of the vacation ordeal. The same recital of courses and social life is in order, with the exception that my grandmother cannot quite accustom herself to my unmarried status. She asks curiously, "How's your boyfriend?" "Fine, Gramma...
...white chrysanthemums. On the throne, sitting on a red cushion, is a picture of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the spiritual master and founder of ISKCON. He faces an orange curtain on the far wall and watches over devotees and visitors as they sit on an apricot-colored floor made of linoleum...
...citation awarded him by Adelphi University). The adman is now retired to a 37-bedroom medieval French chateau. There he continues to produce work that sounds less like a grand seigneur than a great copywriter: "How would you like to watch a Wall Creeper running up and down the apricot walls?" he writes. "You lunch in the garden in the shade of a seventeenth-century holly tree...
Kennedy went so far as to promise that he would become Laetrile's biggest senatorial booster if a test showed that the substance was effective against cancer. But members of the self-styled apricot-pit gang remained hesitant. Said Robert Bradford, president of the right-wing Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy, Inc.: "Orthodox medicine is not qualified to evaluate Laetrile." For one thing, Bradford and his cronies objected to the Government's plan to limit any test to terminal cancer patients. The Laetrile advocates also demanded that the clinical test involve not just Laetrile...