Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gray formality, it appeared for this day to have taken on something like opalescence. The President was more relaxed and charming than he had ever seemed. When George Shultz, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, sympathized with the President over the rainy afternoon, Nixon summoned up a mellow, almost Irish line: "No, no. A soft rain caresses the marriage." Pat Nixon, in a bright dress decorated with appliqued orange, pink and yellow flowers, was vivid and proud...
...best English version of a straightforward Russian word meaning "daybreak." Nabokov seems to know and obstinately use all the English words that ever existed, but does he really not see that "stirless" (as in "Stirless, I stand there at the window") is an unsuccessful coinage, or that "mellow moon" sounds like an ad for Mars Bars...
Everybody says he's competitive, but his combativeness in sports seems to mellow him as a person. He was admitted to Harvard Law School, but he's not sure he wants to go. "Seven years in Cambridge, on the East Coast is ridiculous." he says...
...rock shows, many of the new troubadours are not new at all. The decompression of rock can be traced back to 1968 and Bob Dylan's search for a simple way of saying simple things in John Wesley Harding. Among the groups, the gentling process was carried to mellow new highs and lows by The Band. The rise of rock's new solo poets is a natural extension. Often they are talented offshoots from famous groups, the most notable examples being all four Beatles. Characteristically, they make the new sound but leave explanations to musicologists and sociologists. Occasionally, however...
...vineyards. The state's favorable soil and climate rival and in some ways surpass that of the wine-producing areas of France. Only in recent years, however, have California vintners been able to overcome the popular impression-once founded on fact-that most of their wines lacked the mellow appeal of Europe's output. One consequence is a splurge of expansion that has lured both big corporations and a remarkable number of individual entrepreneurs into the California wine industry...