Word: nut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visitor, British General Charles Gordon, solemnly asserted a century ago that the Garden of Eden was located in the Seychelles, though there are no serpents there. Gordon argued that Eve's gift to Adam was no apple but a coco de mer, an indigenous, double-barreled 40-lb. nut, reputed to have aphrodisiac powers...
...went over the press digest already prepared by his staff, and spent the better part of the forenoon on paperwork at his desk and meeting with other party officials. Then, accompanied by a few of his top aides, the party chief headed east of Rome in his chauffeur-driven, nut-colored Fiat-132 sedan. His destination: the mountain town of Avezzano in the Abruzzi region, a strong Christian Democrat preserve and one of the three constituencies,* along with Rome and Venice, where Berlinguer is the top Communist candidate for the Chamber of Deputies...
...help Egypt with spare parts for those near-obsolete planes. They also have a modified version of the MIG-21, but they are equipped with engines that are not adaptable to Egypt's Soviet-built MIG-21s. Admits one observer: "The Chinese may be able to supply a nut or a bolt here and there, but nothing big enough to solve Egypt's arms problem." That means the Egyptians will still have to look to Western Europe and the U.S. for most of their new military hardware. Still, with the signing, Sadat's anti-Soviet posture...
...means a lush. Similarly, Helen Smith, Pat Nixon's former press secretary, denies that Pat drank heavily. "I never heard of any afternoon drinking by her," she says. Another aide protested that the celebrated scene in which Nixon prays with Henry Kissinger makes the President "look like a nut," while, by contrast, "when Jimmy Carter prays, it's moral leadership...
Jamming a chaw of Beech-Nut tobacco into his cheek, Larry Csonka jumped into a blue Chevrolet pickup truck and, with his older brother Joe at the wheel, bounced down a deeply rutted, brown dirt road to get a close look at 80 acres of Ohio potato and corn fields up for rent. "It's real good land," Joe said as they surveyed the rolling countryside in the fresh fall air. "It's got good drainage and you can see the good crop growing here." Larry nodded. "We can use the land," he said. "Let's take...