Word: honeyed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...column, Ilyinsky wrote that the quote “the land literally flowed with milk and honey,” which she cites twice, “comes straight from Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel ‘Little Women...
...Slate article said: “The ground was not especially sticky in Little Women when Louisa May Alcott wrote that ‘the land literally flowed with milk and honey,’ nor was Tom Sawyer turning somersaults on piles of money when Twain described him as ‘literally rolling in wealth,’ nor was Jay Gatsby shining when Fitzgerald wrote that ‘he literally glowed?...
...Obama looks sharp. He leans forward with a knowing smile, probably thinking about how his presidency intimations are driving the media into a frenzy. According to the dust jacket, the book is about 400 pages of hollow political drivel about bringing hope, happiness, and milk and honey back to America. The inside flap promises a few personal stories about Obama, but don’t expect anything too profound. As a potential presidential candidate, Obama has to keep things boring...
...these killjoys, arriving at the same timeas the trick-or-treaters? Why, they're the anti-sugar brigade, warning that plain old table sugar and its gussied up first cousins--honey, molasses, cane sugar, corn syrup and maple syrup--are less than sweet to those who overindulge, and recommending that we stop eating sugar altogether. Two new books, New York Times best seller Dr. Gott's No Flour, No Sugar Diet and Sugar Shock! by Connie Bennett (out in December), caution that the U.S's love affair with sugar is a doomed relationship. (To add insult to injury...
...South Korea disagrees, saying you can attract more flies with honey than you can with vinegar, and scrubbing the Kim government's back with sandpaper is no different than massaging...