Word: caressable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unsatisfactory for all concerned. The males are short-lived nonentities. The females (queens) turn soon after fertilization into egg-laying machines. The workers (undeveloped females) never mate, but they seem to have a variety of social activities that take the place of sex. At every opportunity they nuzzle and caress one another, and this seems to give them great pleasure...
...Albania he visited the Turkish vizier, Ali Pasha, who "treated me like a child, sending me almonds and sugared sherbet, fruit and sweetmeats twenty times a day." Off the isle of Corfu he found he could take the lash of fortune as well as her caress. When the ship seemed certain to go down in a storm, and even the captain "burst into tears and ran below deck," young Byron, with as much bravery as bravado, "wrapped myself up in my Albanian capote (an immense cloak) and lay down on deck to wait the worst." On shore, his valor...
...speaker was an old man with a quavery voice? Or were you referring to the mode of expression and pronunciation? If this last is the case, then I venture to say that the British accent, be it Scots, Lancashire, Cockney or merely Mayfair, has more vitality, variety and general caress to the ear than the flat, nasal monotone that passes for speech...
...mood, it has a cinnamon flavor that tends to remind fans of happier days gone by-or soon to come. Moreover, thanks to the malocclusion of the Clooney jaw, her voice carries just a hint of a lisp. A word like "kiss" comes out a bit like "kish," and "caress" like "caresh." Like Bing Crosby, who attributed some of the distinctiveness of his early bu-bu-bu-boos to a node on his vocal cords, Clooney gets a sound that no competitor quite duplicates. In the ballad business, where distinctiveness is worth more than a clear high C, her voice...
...wonder our bullfighters clown with the bulls nowadays," said he. "With the bulls in such a condition, anybody can get into the ring and caress the bull's muzzle and grin at the spectators while the bull is charging. The poor animal is like a man whose teeth have been filed down to the gums and who has to chew hard bread...