Word: eau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surrounds you still. It is the most delicious and fragrant and sweet-smelling of odors and one which you cannot buy, for it is nothing less than a confused compound, a farrago of a thousand smells. Even could you afford to buy the thousand bottles of perfume and eau de cologne, the bath powders, and the multiple packages of amber soap that lie in tissue-papered state, you still would not have smell, unless you could also the time, the long, bored months during which the smells gathered and deepened on the shelf...
Sensing that the nuclear power industry had been badly wounded by the events at Three Mile Island, antinuclear groups moved into action across the country. Near Minneapolis and Eau Claire, Wis., they demonstrated against nuclear power plants, crying, "It could happen here...
...Harvardman (in drag) on her left, a Harvardman (in drag) on her right, and a ride through Cambridge in a yellow Rolls-Royce. What more could a girl want? Whether she wanted it or not, Actress Candice Bergen (Oliver's Story) got a special perfume named "Eau de Billy Joe," a gold bean pot and an award as Woman of the Year, bestowed by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Bergen, who was kicked out of the University of Pennsylvania, told the crowd: "Today, as I proudly cradle this pot, I can look back on several visits...
...like Walt Kelly's Pogo and Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury. Today fewer than 400 papers still carry Li'l Abner. For a while, Capp remained a perverse favorite on the campus lecture circuit. But he became something of a recluse after 1972, when a judge in Eau Claire, Wis., fined him $500 for attempted adultery-a crime in Wisconsin-with a state university coed...
...Cheryl waited she pulled her atomizer and liberally applied the vapor to her atmosphere. "Eau du gorille," she smiled. "Gotta keep myself natural." Chloe arrived presently with the book and Cheryl grabbed it, digits atremble. She beamed ably, "Blue Skies, No Candy." She looked up at her chained Kong. "Heavy, huh? Oh bummer, I lost my place. Here we are. Chapter One. 'Am I rushing things...beginning the scene in bed? I cannot resist. Bed is where I'm making it these days, friends, and sometimes it seems I'm only limping along elsewhere. Of course no one would ever...