Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bacteria-filled world. Hughes was obsessed by a fear of contamination from other humans. Secretaries who typed memos that were to go to Hughes were ordered to wear white gloves while hunting and pecking. Whenever Hughes was lifted, he would place a Kleenex?"insulation," he called it?on the palm of the right hand with which he gripped the person who carried...
Ford, too, was relaxing last week after his gallant but futile uphill campaign against Carter. In Palm Springs, Calif., the President and his family were ensconced in a palm-shaded, 14-room villa owned by U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Leonard Firestone; it is part of a millionaires' development called Rancho Mirage. Ford worked at his rusty golf game at some of the swankest courses on the Coast: Thunderbird, La Quinta and Eldorado. "Relax," he told reporters. "Have a good time. No pressure." For the first time since he became President, his staff did not even refer to the journey...
There were small signs that the mantle was already beginning to slip. As Ford arrived in Palm Springs, his normally efficient advancemen forgot to ask a high school band to greet him with Hail to the Chief. They played, instead, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever...
...down in a land storytellers speak of, A slothful tavern, legends, prayers, The feeble shade of listlessly murmuring palm trees...
...since Herman Melville pondered the whiteness of Moby Dick has a region of the spectrum been subjected to such eclectic scrutiny. Gass hoards azure words and holds them up to the light: "Blue poplar. Blue palm ... the blue lucy is a healing plant. Blue John is skim milk. Blue backs are Confederate bills. Blue bellies are yankee boys." He squints at past authorities on physics (Democritus, Aristotle, Galen), the bet- ter to glimpse the essence of this protean color in the corner of an eye. The mystery remains, more mysterious because Gass so thoroughly exposes its complexities. Yet the humanist...