Word: awash
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Bebb? A sleazy evangelist, the Lord's pitchman, the proprietor of an ordination-by-mail diploma mill. Parr sends Bebb the suggested love offering and becomes an ordained preacher by return post. Bebb himself appears shortly thereafter: fierce and shrewd and seedy, awash in the blood of the lamb-and in plans for beggaring the Internal Revenue Service. He is there, he says, to save Parr's soul and teach him gainful godliness...
...lawn to test it, stood amazed when it began rolling downhill, amoeba-like, oozing over hedges and crushing gardens before squooshing to a halt. Mr. and Mrs. James Klopp, of Mountain View, Calif., fell asleep on their new waterbed while it was filling, and awakened to find their bedroom awash...
...institution is as sacrosanct as sport itself. Yesterday's stars don their old numbers, puff through a token contest, then retire to ovations. The game is arthritic, to be sure, but the locker room-ah, that is where the real show is, awash with boozy nostalgia...
...Awash with self-sacrifice and contempt, the New York Jets' defensive captain, Al Atkinson, 27, last week ended his five-year professional football career. But not exactly because the hefty linebacker wanted to chuck football. "What really disgusts me is this quarterback, not thinking for a minute about the average little guys who have families. Right now they're wondering where their leader is." It seems that "this quarterback" (and actor), Joe Namath, 27, had infuriated his teammate by failing to show up for opening practice sessions, a pattern the peripatetic star has followed for three years. Namath...
...among its regular customers. Wearing red handkerchiefs and armed with clubs, the raiders poured into Fauchon and began shoveling foie gras and caviar into the pockets of their combat jackets. The staff organized : a counterattack against the gourmet guerrillas. When the Maoists had been driven out, the floor was awash in vintage wine and pear brandy. Next day young Maoists, sweeping into the slums of Ivry-sur-Seine and Nanterre and a shantytown near Bugnolet, grandly distributed tins of foie gras truffé, caviar, pâté en croûte, marrons glacés, and grand...