Word: courtship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breed of albatross, common to the central Pacific, the gooney bird goes through a stately dance during courtship rites, punctuating his performance with mournful groans and metallic clackings of his beak...
...Bate: no). But they emphatically agree that Fanny Brawne, the girl Keats wanted to marry, was not the heartless flirt that Keats's friends and generations of Keats's sympathizers make her out to be. She loved Keats and was patient with his on-again, off-again courtship...
...their instruments, and the audience whips into a wild free-for-all. In the gardens, shrubs become trees, cabbages become bushes, mushrooms become umbrellas. Kids take to throw ing things at the teachers, townspeople eat and drink as never before, a couple gets married after only two months of courtship, two people fight a duel...
Eventually, Shriver was made assistant general manager-a kind of all-round vice president involved in sales, promotion, advertising. He married the boss's daughter in 1953 after six years of off-again-on-again courtship. Says Shriver: "She's a hard person to sell-tough as her father." They settled down in a 14-room duplex in Chicago, produced three bright-eyed kids (Robert Sargent III, 9; Maria, 7; and Timothy, 3). Shriver got deeply involved in civic affairs-as a good Kennedy in-law would-including five years on the Chicago board of education. He resigned...
...eyes of God." says Preacher Wally Cox, "could mean the end of my ministry"); embryology ("Donny took his nap in the fetal position," coos Mimsy Farmer to Maureen O'Hara); scatology ("Here's a dictionary," pants Mimsy to MacArthur. "with all the dirty words underlined"); and courtship ("Honest, Mom," insists MacArthur to O'Hara, "all we were doing was kissing-that's all"). The Spencer family owns a crag in the Grand Tetons, but they are poor as gophers, and Clayboy Spencer (MacArthur), the apple of all eyes, wants to go to college. Father Fonda...