Word: bee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bathtub, trying to locate the downtown so that they can taste the drama of the big city, just the way they would back in Cleveland or Chicago or New York. At dusk they position themselves in the shadow of the city's tallest, busiest building and are simultaneously bee-swarmed by the swish of traffic, smell of bagels, whistles of cops and honking of cabs while they wait to feel the electricity of the place coming right through their shoe soles from the neon-sparkly sidewalk...
...before, I went to a reception in an old-wood-frame-three-story-grey-family dwelling for the candidate himself. Being famished, I made a bee-line for the goodies spread on the dining-room table. In one of the more daring moves of the New Hampshire campaign I opened the giant pocket of my trench coat and redistributed the pretzels from the affluent china to my impoverished pocket...
...game, the flashing SILENCIO signs could not still the sudden bursts of applause. Finally, after four hours and 27 minutes, Petrosian studied the shattered remains of his French Defense and resigned the game-and the match-to Fischer. While hundreds of fans jostled into the auditorium chanting "Bobbee! Bob-bee!," Fischer disappeared out the stage door and went bowling till 3:30 a.m. Headlined the Buenos Aires daily Cronica: A GENIUS, WITHOUT A DOUBT. At Moscow's Central Chess Club the reaction was summed up by one player who sighed: "Well, we've still got Spassky...
...elaborate table of "Laws for Maria." Item: "If she suffers, it is her own fault for not understanding the universe." But on the whole, he was a really nice if distant dad. He bought the child a small flock of sheep, and became her silent partner in a tiny bee-raising business; many of these episodes, mentioned obscurely in The Cantos, are here explained in full. In Venice he walked her all over town and fed her gooey Italian goodies. And one night, after taking Mary and Mamile to a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie, he got so excited that...
...takes Long Boy a while to realize just how gifted his precocious partner is. Cool and resourceful, she "smells out money like a honey bee smells out woodbine." Eventually he expands their operations. "Let's go ramify a big, fat farmer," he cries; and playing more on human greed than gullibility, he devises imaginative new swindles that net thousands. It takes nerve, but Addie thrives on "that crawly, goose-bumpy feeling I always got before we did business...