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Word: deere (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese ship, Ritsuo (1663-1747) had to apply some 80 coats of lacquer-the dangerously toxic sap from a Japanese relative of poison ivy. Lacquer is slow drying; it had to be left for days or even weeks between coats, and laboriously burnished with charcoal and powdered deer horn. To examine these objects is to realize how vast a language of craft has been lost to Japan, and to the world, since the 19th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spare Clarity | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

...beauty of a pun is in the oy of the beholder. Take Peter DeVries. "The things my wife keeps buying at auctions are keeping us baroque," he writes. And "Last night I dreamed of a female deer chasing a male deer in the mating season. . .a doe trying to make a fast buck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fall Collection | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...Little Deer Isle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1972 | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

...always wanted a real training camp in the mountains," said Muhammad Ali. "Real logs, hard beds, coal stoves." Ali already has two log cabins and a gym at Deer Lake, Pa.; he plans enough additional cabins and mobile homes to sleep 20 people, including his wife, one son and three daughters. Ali figures such sylvan simplicity is worth the $150,000 it will eventually cost. So far, the 30-year-old ex-heavyweight champion can afford it-this week's Madison Square Garden bout with Floyd Patterson guarantees him $250,000-but after that, Ali plans to go easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 25, 1972 | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

...less cost than all of the cold monuments and dull libraries that are now so prevalent. A steaming bowl of Eisenhower vegetable soup might warm recollections more quickly than rummaging through the Eisenhower papers in Abilene. How better to catch the flavor of Lyndon Johnson than by munching a deer-foot sausage or supping on hot Pedernales chili? Richard Nixon could be forewarned to start scouring his ancestral cookbooks, if only to avoid being commemorated by cottage cheese with ketchup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Edible Memorials | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

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