Word: dandelion
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...illusions about what he is up to: "Sex plus whiff of illegality . . . dirty ole man luring child into disused plate-layer's hut and plying her with wine-gums and dandelion-and-burdock to induce her to remove knickers and slake his vile lusts." Wife Kitty always knows when Sir Roy is off and rutting because each new affair is signaled by his stockpiling new undershorts...
...last large watercolors, handsomely illuminating Burchfield's special gifts. Sweeping views and majestic scenery were not his forte. Rather, he marveled at nature's moods, the songs of crickets and cicadas, the sound of the wind in the telegraph wires, the intricate structure of a dandelion seed ball. In his view, weeds were as precious as flowers, trees had faces, houses eyes, and in their lanky, saggy way cornstalks could almost be seen to dance...
Rock and roll upon bones, now death dances in Viet Nam, and in Cambodia. Where will it dance tomorrow? Rise up, girls of Tokyo, boys of Rome. Aim your flowers at the universal evil enemy. Blow aloft all the dandelion fluff of the world. Oh, what a mighty blizzard that will make...
FIFTH DAY. After an uneventful day's hunt, Fred went to the mainland for supplies. At the Ponderosa on Interstate 75, he bought some smoked fish, and the proprietress, Mrs. Melina Hills, invited him into her kitchen for some homemade dandelion wine. She showed him a 20-lb. coho salmon she had "pulled outa the crick this mornin' " as well as photographs of the half-grown pet bobcat she had "potty-trained." Then, handing Fred a sponge soaked in anise oil, she confided: "Don't breeze it around, but that's the best buck lure there...
...hunting and New England are bound by a tradition more mellow than fine dandelion wine, but for Radcliffe it is a very new sport...