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Word: blossomer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most popular courses is "The Self-Confident Home Mechanic," designed to teach students how to repair light switches, calk pipes and fix appliances. One student, Blossom Gottlieb, 26, is taking the course so she and her husband can renovate their hot-dog stand in the seashore community of Cape May, N.J. Her mother-in-law Virginia, 60, is also enrolled because she rents out two summer cottages there. "It's impossible to get a plumber on July 4," she explains, "and the toilets are always stopped up on holidays." Another student, Pat Ortiz, enrolled because she has knocked seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Womanschool | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

Since then, Capraro has become the First Lady's favorite designer. Susan Ford too has been hooked. Last week Capraro was hard at work sketching a long white gown for Susan to wear in May when she will appear as queen of the Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Albert Who? | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

Whether you thought of the picture as cold or warm, the plum blossom throbbed with the youthful emotions of the painter. Probably Keiko had painted it just...

Author: By Robert W. Keefer, | Title: Love Through the Looking Glass | 3/21/1975 | See Source »

When Keiko presents him with one of her paintings, it is of a plum blossom "as large as a baby's face," mixing the colors red and white...

Author: By Robert W. Keefer, | Title: Love Through the Looking Glass | 3/21/1975 | See Source »

...from the Gide-Paul Valery letters: "Letters are most alive when freshly delivered in the sender's handwriting, something perishes when they are typed, more when they are printed, most of all when they are translated. Finally we are left with a well-pressed flower from the original blossom, a silent film of a lifelong tennis match without the sound of the rallies, the oaths and the endearments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Bookman | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

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