Word: dew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heroine is that her vaunted passion is so easily mistaken for stony inflexibility. As played by a glacial blonde, Nina Pens Rode, the lady appears mesmerized; a reference, for instance, to her "magic charm" becomes a droll unintentional joke. She describes herself, in somewhat fustian language, as drops of dew, a passing cloud or a mouth searching for another mouth, when in fact she behaves most of the time like a mouth searching for a listening ear. Words are Gertrud's weapons, and Dreyer wields them in characteristically slow and painstaking style...
...costs railroads, airlines and bus companies millions of dollars a year just for printing and distributing revised timetables. But the obvious answer, nationwide D.S.T., has long been opposed by farmers who argue that "fast time," as they call it, wrecks their harvests since they cannot begin work until the dew is off the hay. Furthermore, they complain, it is one thing to tell a man to get up an hour earlier, quite another thing to tell...
...Damned) were once described as the most alarming combination since assault and battery. In this graceless little memoir Dominic sets out to recount some of the escapades that gave them their reputation. Although he sometimes strikes a rollicking note by writing in an Irish dialect as heavy as Kilkenny dew, all Dominic proves is that 1) Brendan, who died in 1964, was especially unattractive and unmanageable when in his cups; and 2) drunks seldom are very funny except to those who are sharing the same bottle...
...they faced reporters in brilliant sunshine on the L.B.J. Ranch, any lin gering hostility between Lyndon John son and Federal Reserve Board Chair man Martin seemed to evaporate like morning dew...
...DEW immediately denied that a final decision has been made. Commissioner Francis W. Sargent earlier pledged to await Cambridge's evaluation of a number of alternative routes before selecting an official location. Cambridge observes yesterday said they believe Sargent has acted in good faith, and they accept his word...