Word: honeying
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...bathing suits and she gets discouraged because these two little teenage girls are waltzing around in their bikinis next to her. And this very sweet lady helping her with her bathing suit sees that my mother is discouraged, and she takes her by the hand and says, "Oh, honey, don't worry about it. We had our turn." It made my mom feel so much better...
...provide a weary farmer a place to sit or store his tools. But get close enough under the right conditions--dry, above 55°, no more than a light breeze--and you can hear and see one of the most vital relationships in modern American agriculture: the droning dance of honey bees feasting on almond pollen...
...roads around Hughson, and it's easy to find 10 different almond farmers renting hives from 10 different states. Orin Johnson, whose family has been keeping bees around Hughson since the 1950s, remembers when beekeepers earned less than $10 per hive in pollination fees to supplement their main business: honey. "Almonds were nothing," says Johnson, examining some of his 700 hives, his snow white hair peeking out from beneath a green trucker hat. Today about 60% of Johnson's business is pollination. (The honey made from almond blossoms is too bitter to eat and is not harvested...
...Cuban government, comes after his first year in office. Among those affected were Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque and Vice President Carlos Lage, both of whom had been considered potential presidential candidates. Fidel Castro backed the moves, blasting some of his former cohort for being corrupted by 'the honey of power...
...after Raúl's changes in which he insisted that he had signed off on the ousters. In classic Fidel style - portraying fired officials as fallen communist angels - he wrote that Perez Roque and Lage were "liberated from their posts" not because they were Fidelistas but because "the honey of power" had infected them and "awakened in them ambitions" that made them "unworthy." After that the two men were compelled to resign their posts in the powerful Council of State and the even more important Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party...