Word: honeydew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honeydew hath fed And drunk the milk of Paradise...
...time that men work through longer vacations, sabbaticals, earlier retirement. Such benefits constituted nearly half of last fortnight's steel settlement. The United Auto Workers operate under a contract granting them bereavement pay, funeral leave and Christmas bonuses. Their "supplemental allowance" scheme is known to members as the Honeydew Project-because the men can retire earlier, go home, and hear their wives say, "Honey, do this-Honey, do that." Senior auto and steelworkers get 13 weeks' annual vacation. The United Brewery Workers are contractually given the right to drink as much of the plant product as they want...
Scientists have long admired the industrious ants that keep aphids as cows and milk them for their sweet "honeydew" secretion. Now a graduate student in entomology has added to the brief catalogue of insect husbandry Louisiana State University's Gary Ross has watched Mexican carpenter ants (Camponotus abominalis) protect caterpillars against their natural enemies and live on the juices that the caterpillars excrete. Though both parties benefit from the odd relationship, nature ensures that it is always brief: by the time they are 83 days old, the caterpillar cattle sprout orange-rimmed wings and fly away...
...protecting ants found them at once and quickly dragged them away. About 7:30 p.m., the caterpillar is let out of its burrow. Shepherded by the carpenter ants, it climbs to the topmost leaves of the bush and starts feeding greedily. The ants climb aboard and drink its honeydew on the spot...
...above today. Heard a robin for sure this morning. Clear, sunny, fleecy clouds. Planted head lettuce, cucumbers, honeydew melons in flats and tins. Asters pushing up from the soil. Washed today. What a lot of snow-melting it takes...