Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of the shopping, tends the garden, cleans the swimming pool, thoughtfully leaves the family Buick out all night because another domestic couple, two robins, have set up nesters' rights in the garage. Like his wife, he frequently speaks in exclamation points. "I've got some lovely lamb chops here!" he shouts, coming in from a shopping trip. "One whole side of a baby lamb!" Two years ago, at 60, he retired from his position as public relations analyst at Bell Telephone, five years before compulsory retirement age. "Well, really," he said in explanation, "there were...
...Morris was invited to a costume party and decided to go as a lion. Unable to afford a ready made costume he fashioned his own out of old yellow bedspreads. For the mane, Morris ingeniously dyed a watercress and some lamb's wool gold and wired them together. His costume was perfect except that when he moved embarrassing squeaking noises issued from his mane. Morris telephoned his friend George for advice...
After that the Terps look for points to three 15-foot pole vaulters, Cole (21.5) in the 220, Steve Lamb (47.5) in the quarter, Ramsey Thomas (1:52.8) in the half, and George Henry (4:08.7) in the mile. But except for the pole vaulters and Henry, whose time is second-best in the East, the contributions of these gentlemen are likely to be minimal...
...occasionally might receive a case of Madeira, while Cabinet members would rate only terrapin, and Congressmen wound up with canvasback duck. Ward never arm-twisted guests or mentioned his interests, but when a bill of his reached the floor, former tablemates would receive a note: "This is my little lamb. Be good." Though he helped others make money, Ward could never hold on to it himself; before turning to lobbying, he had lost his family's Wall Street fortune and made and lost two others in California. Finally, weary of Washington, Sam returned to New York, putting...
...owned and staffed by Gourinois. They range from the East Side's L'Escargot (which serves a Breton specialty, homard à l'Armoricain, for $5) through the West Side's Café des Sports, where for $1.80 a customer can demolish a head of lamb, drink two glasses of extraordinary vin ordinaire, and talk soccer with Proprietor Lucien Lozach, a former goalkeeper himself, who is keener on scores than on scullery...