Word: basket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what is rarer, their praise was deserved. For Chardin had two great gifts. The first was his ability to absorb himself in the visual to the point of self-effacement. Now and again, as in his Basket of Wild Strawberries-the glowing red cone, compressing the effulgence of a volcano onto a kitchen table, balanced by two white carnations and the cold, silvery transparencies of a water glass-the sense of rapture is delivered almost before the painting is grasped...
Richard Nixon began the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks even while allowing Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to come to America and fill his military market basket. "I think I can prove," mused Nixon a while back, "that the arms Americans have sold have rarely been used in aggression, while those of the Russians and other nations have been used repeatedly. Are we to ignore requests from our friends in this kind of world...
...shaking with outrage and fear. I've had one traffic ticket in my life, with none of the strip searching in the police station [March 19] you mention. However, I would probably become a basket case if such a thing did happen to me. A person seems to be guilty until proved innocent. I don't want to sue after it happens; I want to keep it from happening...
...Refreshments are served continuously by, yes, volunteer waiters and waitresses. You can take your pick from hot chocolate, cinnamon or plain coffee, mocha, tea, assorted sodas, cookies, or the best hot apple cider in town. Everything is free, but the place runs on donations, so leave something in the basket on the way out. Of course, if you're in the mood for a little good, healthy manual labor, co-manager Elizabeth Cold says they can always use more volunteers to serve drinks and wash dishes...
Call only scored one more basket in the next 31 minutes, but after Davis fouled out of the game, Call scored eight more points in three minutes to give Cornell a commanding 82-72 lead with 1:05 remaining to be played...