Word: lemons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shell-started flames. In Famagusta, the church of St. Nicholas where the kings of Jerusalem were once crowned was damaged. The temple of Aphrodite in Paphos was seriously pocked by mortar shells. In Bellapaise, high above the sea on the north coast, the 14th century abbey with its lemon trees is under United Nations protection...
...sparkle with droplets that come from the heart, and that gives his verse the luster of beauty. These magic dewdrops need not be stimulated by real life events. On the contrary, we suspect that the poet sometimes squeezes his heart with the same detachment as a housewife squeezing a lemon over her salad...
...historical significance of the political turnaround in mid-twentieth century America, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. Thomas fell into the onion trap; he was so busy stripping away he forgot to leave anything over; and his book, to switch vegetables, has all the force of a squeezed lemon...
BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS is an attractive volume. Many skillful illustrations--the original woodcuts--snare one in a tangle of detail. And the stories reveal the idiosyncracies of their authors more than any standard literary styles in fairy tales. John Ruskin moralizes, while Mark Lemon, the first editor of Punch, comes across very romantically for a man who earned his living by a pointed...
...Washington, D.C., in 1934. He soon succeeded Kennedy as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission under Franklin Roosevelt. The professor turned bureaucrat quickly became a regular at F.D.R.'s "command performance" poker games. He also became the President's favorite martini mixer (chilled glasses with lemon rubbed on the rim, and just a taint of vermouth...