Word: dander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Willie is a roughneck with a poet's soul. When his dander isn't up he is courteous and softspoken, with some of the grave self-possession of the country man. His favorite reading is Kahlil Gibran and Edgar Cayce. Sitting around hotel rooms, he muses often on the theory of reincarnation and on karma as a sort of Newton's Third Law of the spirit ("Whatever goes around, comes around"). Willie is "irresistible to women," says a female member of his entourage, "because he's so sensitive along with being so masculine-like Shane." Willie...
...reader who took on the sponsor was not exactly run-of-the-mill. He was E. B. White, who was long the master of The New Yorker's Notes and Comment column. At 76, White no longer writes very much, but he can still work up a dander when he spies a fox lurking in the thicket. When he first heard about Xerox's plans to sponsor the Salisbury article, he let fly a letter to the nearby Ellsworth American. "This, it would seem to me, is not only a new idea in publishing," wrote White, "it charts...
Over oceans, landmasses and treetops the Moon now takes her dander through the darkness, to lenses a ruined world lying in its own rubbish, but still to the naked eye the Icon of all mothers, for never shall second thoughts succumb our first-hand feelings, our only redeeming charm, our childish drive to wonder: spaced about the firmament, planets and constellations still officiously declare the glory of God, though known to be uninfluential...
...work up a dander when the behemoth was sweating himself to death? From there the magic returned, the faith restored, Foreman's end stood at Ali's beck and call. It came quickly, too. In a second or so. Allah's justice is not just and swift retribution. For those in Ali's fold, it took a long time...