Word: gush
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...about the daily staples of such a trip-neighborly whales and nautical loneliness, gale-force blasts and the odd flying fish landing on deck just in time for breakfast. As skipper she found settling into routine at sea like settling into a new London flat. With no suggestion of gush, she conveys flashes of femininity, reflecting, for instance, on the psychological therapy of perfume even alone at sea. There comes a moment when the disheartened sailor seriously considers turning back but does not, in part because she could just hear those consoling male voices saying "Jolly good effort...
...election night, Martha Mitchell called Hanrahan to gush, "I'm a Republican, but you're my kind of Democrat." Not much later, Mayor Daley also phoned his congratulations. "Politics is no different than sports," the mayor philosophized. "You win 'em and you lose 'em." Having defied the machine and won, Hanrahan returns to the fold with much more power than he had before he was kicked out. Unless he is convicted on criminal charges, he seems likely to beat his Republican opponent in the general election. He is, in fact, in a strong position to succeed...
...Lament sent round his suggestions for summer reading in Maine-the Apology, Crito, Phaedo, etc. "I haven't told you about Groton and dear Dwight," young Anne Morrow writes to her sister from Smith College. "He was so sweet and dear and such fun." With a certain pleasant gush, these fragments evoke an age-the long-gone innocence of growing up in Englewood, N.J., in an atmosphere of affluent rectitude and Jamesian family tours of the Continent...
...safe-and-sound candidate, the one least likely to embark on war or some other hazardous undertaking. They are a bit less racially prejudiced when they vote, a bit more internationally minded. Their response to charisma is apparently overrated. Younger women may jump and squeal, older women may gush over a candidate like John Lindsay; but once they go to vote, they are less susceptible to their emotions. It was not the glamorous ex-PT boat commander, John F. Kennedy, who won the bulk of the women's vote in 1960. More than 50% of women preferred Richard Nixon...
...with the Portugese colonialists. They went ahead because, in the words of Cabinda Gulf manager Robert F. Ward, the Cabinda oil strike is "one of the major growth areas of the Corporation." The Cabinda fields are estimated to have reserves of at least 300 million tons, and they will gush at the rate of 150,000 barrels a day for forty years. And given the low labor costs if Portugese rule continues, that will add up to a lot of profit...