Word: gushes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...books about Kennedy, I doubt if anyone has expressed a nation's feelings as well as Euripides in Hippolytus. "On all our citizens hath come this universal sorrow, unforeseen. Now shall the copious tear gush forth, for sad news about great men takes more than usual hold upon the heart...
...visits, Hilary sandwiches an interview with two reporters from a literary magazine. This gives Poet-Novelist Sarton, who is just the other side of 53, an excuse to review Hilary's life and attachments (Phillippa the governess, Nurse Gillespie, Willa MacPherson, Dorothea and Madeleine HiRose) and gush about lyrical art ("Intensity commands form"). Absolutely nothing else happens. The title page identifies this book as a novel, Miss Sarton's ninth...
...just as Nasser has been backing the republicans, so if a swift solution is possible they should be the men to find it. In Cairo, where Egyptians are weary of a distant war that costs $1,000,000 a day in addition to thousands of casualties, there was a gush of exultation. The daily Al Akhbar printed a cartoon showing Nasser riding a white dove to his meeting with Feisal in Jedda...
First the man crows about the faith ful pump in his sink, the new icebox and his coal-burning stove. The year is about 1898. All these relics are choreo graphed to gush rusty water, pop open, or glow genially while he talks. The revolving audience sees him in three additional incarnations-in the '20s, the '40s, and today in his ultimate, modern G.E. home, with indirect colored lighting and clear-plastic, form-fitting kitchen chairs. The older appliances are wonders to behold. But the plastic man's life gets duller as it progresses...
...They look forward to the Thursday and Saturday paseo of boys and girls circling the town plaza in opposite directions to look each other over and flirt their way into marriage. They are careful to cover their mouths against the night air "to avoid catching cold," and not to gush over a Mexican baby, out of respect for the Indians' belief that this will give the child the evil eye. They say "This is your home" when guests enter their houses, and they serve frijoles instead of potatoes and tortillas instead of white bread...