Word: courtship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Loafers are convinced that children are inspired to write well when they have information to communicate. In Gilbert, S.C., for instance, students interviewed old-timers to discover what life in their small towns was like many decades ago. The students' narrative accounts, vividly describing everything from butter making to courtship and marriage, were published in a magazine they named Sparkleberry. This summer at Gilbert's Fourth of July Peach Festival, the homemade magazines sold like hot cobblers...
...Latin America that may occur later this year. That would make him the first Soviet leader ever to visit mainland Latin America. As in Asia, he is thus presenting the U.S. with a new type of challenge: a competition for friends and influence that is conducted by diplomatic courtship rather than through wars of national liberation and covert military activities. The old style of Soviet diplomacy, which tended to be clumsy and naysaying, was often actually helpful to America. A more sophisticated and flexible style will mean tougher competition for the U.S. Under what has been dubbed the Reagan Doctrine...
...post, for example -- the insects take their last step toward adulthood. They hook their needle-like claws into the surface, arch their backs to break their skin and then wiggle free. A day later they are ready to fly away. All of this is merely a prelude to courtship, with the male cicadas seeking to attract mates with their staccato siren song, produced by vigorously vibrating two drumlike appendages on the abdomen...
...then it could take its place on shelves crowded with explicit fiction that celebrated the new ideal of sexual behavior it had helped to inspire. Freedom, spontaneity, pleasure without guilt became the bywords of the liberated '60s and '70s, as many men and women evolved freewheeling rituals of courtship in singles bars, in casual affairs and in relationships in which the outcomes remained insouciantly negotiable...
...explanation for Bush's approach is simple. He aches to be President, and to win that prize must endure certain deferential, hand-dirtying things. Thus he had to neutralize conservatives, who for years have scorned him. His courtship of Religious Leader Jerry Falwell last year reeked of ambition. Bush addressed Falwell's followers and heaped extravagant praise on the preacher. A month earlier he accepted an invitation to speak at a dinner honoring New Hampshire's right-wing publisher, the late William Loeb. For years Loeb had abused Bush in print, labeling him an incompetent hypocrite and, even worse...