Word: fragrantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dealing with how to develop the Chinese economy, science and technology (see SCIENCE). During last year's anti-Teng campaign, these articles were labeled the "three poisonous weeds." According to a 6,000-word editorial in the People's Daily earlier this month, the weeds were actually "fragrant flowers." There has been a continuing purge from government positions of radicals associated with Chiang Ch'ing, who have been replaced by veteran bureaucrats linked with Teng. The new party chief of Anhwei province, for example, is Wan Li, the ex-Railway Minister who came under attack...
...winter-well, it is inconvenient to be cold, with most of what furnace fuel is allowed hoarded for the dawn; but sweaters are popular indoor wear and showers are not an everyday luxury. Lukewarm sponge baths will do, and if the air is not always very fragrant in the human vicinity, the automobile fumes are gone...
...tastes change. John Galsworthy seemed a safe bet in 1930 when a first edition of his The Man of Property (1906) sold for about $250. Today that property, in good condition, would be worth a little more than half that amount. During the '50s, literary quarterlies were fragrant with allusions to Henry James' "sensibility." In the '60s, popular interest in James receded -and prices leveled off. Anyone who paid dearly for a signed copy of Richard Nixon's My Six Crises in 1972 would now find the book about as valuable as a campaign promise...
...result, retail prices of Parmesan in many stores have nearly doubled, from $2.70 a pound in midsummer to $4.70 a pound currently. The price hike caused an outpouring of rage. "Bastaf" cried desperate Italian housewives, forced to turn up their noses at the fragrant wheels stacked on their grocers-shelves."When Parmesan went up to $4 a pound," said one Milanese widow living on a pension, "I told my grocer to eat it himself...
...party had climaxed at about 12:30 a.m., when a contingent of Wellesley women who had flushed into the room with the studied elan and fragrant swish of social breeding abandoned us for the bus back home or the rooms of hospitable Harvard students. The stoned still demanded drinks at the bar and barked when they were not available, the girl with the eye on her shirt had been convinced to keep on dancing, and even the boy with the tired black hat on his head continued to dance angularly with the girl I still...