Word: fluff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having made these reservations, I can report that the production is the most enjoyable of any I've seen at the Charles. Never pretentious, always fast and spirited, it is the perfect escape from reading period. It is a fine piece of pure and pleasant fluff...
...intense heat, the loo's warm caresses are sensuous and pleasant. It brings up the prickly heat. It produces a numbness which makes the head nod and the eyes heavy with sleep. It brings on a stroke which takes its victim as gently as breeze bears a fluff of thistledown." -Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan...
...resident of Hawaii, Kono was so asthmatic as a child that his worried mother tried such Oriental remedies as burning small amounts of fluff directly against his body. In 1945, while he and his family were quartered in a wartime relocation camp, Kono began fooling around with weights, soon rid himself of the asthma, changed from a 105-lb. weakling into a genuine Atlas...
...will say, but on the whole he restates it effectively. Homage to Clio-poems written during the past five years-is the work of the self-revised, settled Auden, but it still offers a reasonably varied mixture. The earlier, brash Auden still reappears occasionally with bits of wise-guy fluff...