Word: dandelion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instructors in fatigues and mufti are still lecturing on the fine points of treason, gun handling and dandelion cook ery. Off to the side, a group of apple-cheeked, grade-school-age girls in ging ham dresses, children of members of the audience, are sitting on swings, singing chorus after chorus of Jesus Loves...
...worsteds-these are unmistakable parts of Wolfe's style. It is still called the New Journalism, although the form is as old as the Beatles and the author is now 48. Like the Beatles, Wolfe has had a revolutionary impact on his field. His imitators have spread like dandelion fluff, and his work still stirs furious debate...
...spirits and colleens with unflagging energy. Here, in the cool rationality of Moore Hall, is MacCarthy's fellow Catholic and countryman George Moore, historian of the French Revolution and Cassandra of its Irish offspring, dreading that "the spirit of Rousseau is in the very air these days, like dandelion puffballs." Recording the contagion, as one of the novel's several narrators, is the Rev. Arthur Vincent Broome, M.A. (Oxon.), dispatched from England to shepherd a Protestant flock in distant Killala but soon questioning whether he is merely a "priest to a military cult...
...Italian-born sculptor and furniture designer; of a pulmonary hemorrhage; in Barto, Pa. Bertoia first achieved recognition in 1952 when he unveiled his now classic chair: an upholstered, diamond-shaped wire shell sus pended in a steel cradle. He was later noted for welding metal rods and plates into dandelion-like bursts and honeycombed wall screens, and for creating his "sounding sculptures," clusters of wires and bars that turned sonorous when brushed by hand or wind...
Bosnic trotted on and clipped the ball off the turf as neatly as if it were a dandelion head for a 43-yard field goal. Bosnic's boot gave Harvard a 17-7 lead at the half and proved to be the winning margin in the game...