Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with timorous displays of budded rotundities, swelling hillocks, portals of ecstasy and other geographical purlieus quite foreign to Gray's Anatomy. When it comes to a seduction scenario, few contemporary eroticists could match the subtlety of an anonymous 17th-century poet in reciting a pastoral love-in between a fair lad and a group of fair ladies (all of whom become pregnant). Even the title of the poem, Narcissus, Come Kiss Us! (And Love Us Beside), would assure a rock recording of the lyrics a top ten rating in Billboard...
Harry Harry Reasoner, introducing a CBS-TV Essay on Woman: "This broadcast was prepared by men, and makes no claim to being fair. Prejudice has saved us a great deal of time in preparation...
SOMETHING BRUIN should return to December form at Tropical park where she won two in impressive fashion, if not, pick any number as these mules seemed destined for the fair circuit...
Embroiled in Controversy. The three decisions exemplified the court's insistence that the states observe strictly the Constitution's guarantees of fair procedure. They also typified what University of Chicago Law Professor Harry Kalven Jr. calls the Warren court's "appetite for action" and its penchant for "taking on tough social questions where the pressures were very high." That penchant has, of course, kept Warren and his associates embroiled in constant controversy. The court has been accused of everything from coddling criminals and handcuffing the police to approving hard-core pornography and banishing God from the public...
Troy, they "came to the two fair-flowing springs, where two fountains rise that feed deep-eddying Skamandros." As it happens, Berve notes, Schliemann's excavations revealed not one Troy but a city that had been repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt over a period of more than a thousand years...