Word: basks
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Almost lost in the corner of one particularly vast floor, a number of tables of plants bask under fluorescent lamps. "The only water-powered African violet farm in the world," MacArthur announces with a mock-grand wave of the hand to introduce the domain of Cliff Shafer. A big, soft-spoken man with kindly "Please grow" eyes, Shafer patiently fights the presence of mildew on his gloxinia and mill cats in his potting soil. In Maine, the greenhouse, which costs about twelve times as much to heat as comparable space in a factory, is a faltering institution. Shafer can easily...
Nonetheless, when Carter, Wife Rosalynn and Daughter Amy head back to Washington early this week, the presidential party can point to some modest returns from the journey. It gave the President an opportunity to restate his concern about human rights overseas, dramatize his interest in developing nations and bask in the warm cheers of friendly foreign crowds...
Lasky has a better case in charging that Jack Kennedy enjoyed a relatively uncritical press. Too many Washington reporters were charmed by him and wanted to bask in Camelot favors. Yet whether their failure to report his hyperactive sex life was a coverup, as Lasky charges, is doubtful. Rightly or wrongly, the sexual excesses of politicians had not been seen as newsworthy until the advent of post-Watergate morality. It was hardly a partisan matter; widely rumored dalliances by F.D.R. and Ike went unreported too at the time. The bedtime habits of a President, moreover, are scarcely...
...Brazil's 21 states, kissing babies, cutting ribbons and shaking every hand in sight like any vote-hungry candidate. Along the way, he invested much of his personal prestige on behalf of local candidates of the government's National Renewal Alliance (ARENA). By allowing them to bask in the presidential aura, Geisel transformed the municipal elections into a plebiscite on the Brazilian military's twelve-year-old "revolution" and its faltering economic "miracle." As the votes of 40 million citizens were tabulated last week, both ARENA and its opposition, the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), had cause...
Baseball is fun these days in Kansas City. Leading Oakland in the American League's Western Division by 7 games, the Royals bask in the front-runner's knowledge that this year playing catch-up is for other guys. The roster includes some of the best young players in either league. Says Director of Player Development John Schuerholz: "We have a lot to look forward to. Our superstars are in the making...