Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three Beich brothers obliged their great-grandfather McNulta, and smoked General Grant's gift cigar. They found it mild and surprisingly fresh, but they didn't smoke it too far down. General Grant was known for his habit of giving out exploding cigars. -Jane O'Reilly
...Moon died of an overdose of Heminevirin, a drug he was taking to combat his alcoholism. Moon's passing forced a crisis within the group, the three surviving members re-examining their loyalty to rock, and to each other. Daltrey told Townshend: "Keith's life and death were a gift to the group. A sacrifice to allow us to continue." Townshend recalls thinking at the time, "How can I agree with something as 20th Century-Fox as that? But I felt it too. That besides being a sacrifice, Keith's death had given me a stronghold." The Who asked Kenny...
...manufactured connection between sociobiology and reactionary political idology appear to be a logical and necessary one, and then has widely publicized such fabrications. It is little wonder that these neo-fascist groups, who share with SFTP the willingness to subordinate accuracy to ideological and polemical convenience, would accept the gift of a specious link to scientific legitimization so defly delivered to them by SFTP. A group that practiced what SFTP professes would have acted so as to isolate neo-fascist groups from any source of legitimization, rather than to fabricate non-existent links. Their behavior makes sense if one infers...
...local department store, armed with an endless list of grand-nephews twice-removed, neighbors you've not seen all year, and assorted or-thodontists and hairdressers. You don't know anything about them, you don't care to know anything about them, but nonetheless you quest for that "tasteful" gift...
Head for the book department. Books are relatively harmless, and compact. What's more, they double as doorwedges for illiterate gift recipients. In a good bookstore, you can blow off your endless list in an hour...