Word: dipping
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...enjoyed women; indeed, his portraits of them are among the most glowing tributes in the Philadelphia exhibition. Yet as portraits, they have a certain detachment. Faces are fuzzy; full-length figures pose before blurry backgrounds almost devoid of perspective; details of decor are slighted at will. Even the deep-dip decolletage of his 1882 pastel of a young girl is erotic seemingly by accident...
...been lucratively multiplying under J. Paul's administration, partly because he has not been dispensing the earnings to the family. Now the fund is worth nearly $300 million, and Gordon thinks the law should decide whether he and his brothers are entitled to dip into the trust. He added: "I have the utmost respect and affection for my father...
While other Americans were off on vacation this summer, or at least enjoying tennis or a dip in the pool, Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society, went about the U.S. on what must have been a dreary mission. As Welch tells it in the society's bulletin, he spent a good part of the summer going "from one city to another, where acrimonious disputes were raging among our members." Even worse, admitted Welch, "about all I usually accomplished, in trying to pour oil upon these troubled waters, was to get myself completely splattered with...
They were fed cheese from at least two continents and two punches -- a claret and a sauterne. The crackers were straight from Cahaly's (Ritz, mainly, and a mutant potato chip or two); the dip was no-nonsense mayonaise, made aristocratic with parsely...
...four months of exuberant expansion that has brought the U.S. close to inflation, the economy is showing signs of cooling off. The pace of business is still accelerating, but the rate is slower for three main rea sons: tight money, shrinkage in the federal deficit and a recent dip in consumer spending in some fields...