Word: lushes
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...lush seriousness of his prose, Lowry was quite aware of the ridiculous, troublesome figure he cut for most of his 47 years. A touch of buffoonery even creeps into Under the Volcano, that hellish pressure cooker of a novel that was his only important work...
...analyze all his data. His findings, though still far from complete, have drastically changed the image of the prehistoric North Americans who lived in the area. Contrary to the accepted view, Struever says, these Stone Age people apparently led a rather idyllic life. Food was plentiful in the lush valley, allowing them to feast on nuts and wild grains, ducks, mollusks and fish. One cooking pit, for example, contained some 22,000 fish bones of all sizes, down to skeletons of 1-in.-long minnows; apparently they were all cooked together in a giant prehistoric bouillabaisse...
...executive is lured from another company at a lush salary, his arrival will automatically hold down the raises of his new colleagues. Another common complaint is that executives will have less incentive to work hard to raise prof its, if a doubling of profits increases their bonuses only...
...believed that if a desert town was a good place to live, an oasis was even better. So they planted and watered thick lawns of Bermuda grass, neat privet hedges and thousands of shade trees, notably the mulberry. As a result, Arizona's cities now seem almost as lush and lovely as any East Coast suburb...
...that, Rosemary Jarman does manage to convey the lush, devious, bawdy ambience of her chosen century, makes lively a time, place and society that once were and now still seem passing strange. -A.T. Baker