Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salesman and the farmer's daughter. This is because whenever a traveling salesman visits a Japanese farm, daughter is working in the rice fields, chopping wood or feeding the chickens, and the best a poor salesman can hope for is a chat and a cup of tea with dear old dad, who often enough is not doing anything...
...given a pair of young people necking in a canoe. Eventually the boy stops nibbling at the girl's earlobes long enough to murmur huskily: 'Darling, have a Wonderborough, they're milder because they are made only from the tender center leaf.' 'Yes, dear.' she purrs back, 'and did you know that more people are switching to Wonderboroughs than to any other leading brand?' Now I ask you-what are we supposed to think? I know what I think: those two kids are sick." Jean Kerr is also annoyed...
...dinner (25 to 35 live crayfish, 200 to 300 worms, one frog, several scrambled eggs, add mud and stir). But beyond that, instead of just waddling about his own business, Cecil began to court Penelope. He grabbed her flat tail in his duckbilled, toothless mouth, and held on for dear life while Penelope dragged him around the pool in slow circles. At times Cecil would let go and roll over and over in the water. But Penelope, who after all weighs two pounds to Cecil's four, did not see what there was to be so ecstatic about...
...hold her sisters enthralled for hours with her tales out of Sir Walter Scott and her recitations of Keats and Shelley. By the time she graduated from Miss Porter's Finishing School for Young Ladies in Farmington, Conn., she knew exactly what she wanted to do. "My dear Edith." clucked Miss Porter, "you can become learned. But, my dear Edith, I don't think much of learning...
Moreover, said Yadin, the epistle is full of quotations and references to Pentateuch material, mainly in connection with the sojourn in the wilderness and the tabernacle-matters especially dear to the Essenes. For "when we review all the material in the Dead Sea scrolls literature, we cannot help feeling that the Dead Sea sect organized itself in an exact as possible replica of the life of the tribes of Israel in the wilderness . . . considered the 'period of Belial' similar to the 40 years' wandering, and hoped and believed that in the very near future they would...