Word: flings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this hysteria, though, Crosby is only more extreme than the times he was living in. It has become proverbial to describe the 20s in terms of a final, desperate fling before the reckoning...
Plainly, the nation is witnessing a new form of nomadness, already epidemic and spreading fast. Why? Even though the craze began in California, it is not necessarily incomprehensible. Many observers shrug off the outbreak of vanaticism as merely an acute fling of the gadabout restlessness always evident in America. Any Pop sociologist might be tempted to interpret the van binge as simply a bizarre elaboration of the American's longtime romance with the automobile. At one time, folklore attributed the increase in vans to newly liberated youth's need for a convenient trysting place; indeed, the current...
...weaning. When the benefit to the child begins to be outweighed by the cost to the mother (reduced ability to bear or care for other offspring), the mother will deny milk, though the offspring will continue to demand more. But parents have an edge. (Says Trivers: "An offspring cannot fling its mother to the ground at will and nurse.") So evolution has provided a defensive weapon for the offspring: psychological warfare. Some fledgling birds will scream with hunger?even when they are reasonably well fed?to induce the parent to bring more food. Dogs withhold tail-wagging to get more...
...asked for her telephone number. For the first time in her life, Marilynn Levy gave a guy she had met in a bar her number. "He called me, and we started seeing each other. No big thing. I was 23 years old; this was my fling. It was hard because I didn't want to take him home and upset my parents, so we would always meet someplace...
...assassinate the man he was interviewing. At the end of their hours together, Castro asked the reporter if he would accept the CIA job. Moyers promised that he would still be a journalist when they met again. "That'll be better," said Castro, who had a brief fling as a muckraking reporter in Havana before the revolution. "Journalism is beautiful...