Word: peated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brought up in the west of Ireland on savage libertarian principles derived from Jean Jacques Rousseau, Nicolette went barefoot, often swam naked in the freezing Atlantic. When her fearless father Macnamara led her across the peat bogs, he was accustomed to throw her across the wider draining ditches. After that cuckoo County Clareman walked out on Mother and the Macnamara brood, they were given house room by Augustus John...
...invisible to the show's patrons is the hard-nosed business that goes into every new bloom. With 44 million U.S. gardeners spending an estimated $5 billion each year on everything from peat moss to chamois-colored gloves with green thumbs, companies such as Jackson & Perkins and Burpee begin years in advance to cross-fertilize flowers to achieve the blend of color, size and hardiness to captivate this spring's buyer. To produce a new hybrid, employees brush pollen individually onto the pistils of 10,000 roses, consider themselves lucky if three of the resulting 100,000 seedlings...
...more than anyone else except the government. Indirectly, it supports 26,000 employees of 14,500 pubs-and 16,000 Irish farmers depend on Guinness to buy 100,000 tons of barley annually. The company pays $23 million yearly in excise taxes, has lent the government money to build peat-briquette factories, contributes to both University and Trinity colleges. At that rate, any Irish "pintman" who doesn't drink all the Guinness pints he can is practically traitorous...
Last week, shoulder to shoulder in a line of 80, the police were still systematically advancing over the moors, plunging slender canes into the soggy peat, then sniffing their tips for the telltale stench of putrescent flesh. Near by huddled newsmen, cameramen and private ghouls who have converged on the neighborhood, jamming local hotels, emptying stores of boots and galoshes, and quite un-mystically sending auto-rental rates...
...fringes of the Western world, his work flirts with the Far East, draws from such predecessors as Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt as well as the tendrilous enticements of Jugendstil or art nouveau. He mingles oils and tempera with gold and silver foil, beeswax, and bits of peat moss and sand to make his almost bitter, labyrinthine pastries...