Word: peppermint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FOURTH DAY. After bracing himself with a shot of peppermint schnapps, Fred peeped out of the tent flap at 4:30 a.m. to find four inches of snow on the ground. Then he slipped on an extra suit of thermal underwear and set out in the dark. In the near-zero temperature, the inlet rimming the camp was layered with ice, and the sand was frozen hard as concrete. Bending like a bloodhound over the maze of snow tracks in the clearing, Fred whispered: "They're moving out of that shintangle [thicket] over there just after sundown." At dusk...
...White House luncheons hosted by the First Lady are traditionally as dulcet as the ladies' favorite dessert of peppermint mousse. When Mrs. Lyndon Johnson invited 50 women "doers" to the first of a new series of campaign-oriented repasts devoted to national problems last week, she did not anticipate a side order of vinegar from one of her best-known guests, Negro Entertainer Eartha Kitt...
Gone Fishing. Equally haphazard is Shelburne's general store, a zany montage of barbershop, country doctor's office, dentist's cubicle, post office and taproom whose shelves are laden with jars of candy and patent nostrums. A faint smell of peppermint is always in the air, and outside the door hangs a hand-painted sign: "Gone fishing be back Monday mebbe." The schoolhouse combines a dunce cap made from an 1868 newspaper with wall drawings made by Lincoln-era schoolchildren and period mottoes written on the blackboard: "People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages...
...LOVE, CHARLIE BROWN (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Spring has finally sprung on good old Charlie Brown, and the new object of this young man's adoring fancy is a pretty young chick named Peppermint Patty...
...opens in a hospital ward, where the gauze bandages turbaning every head suggest that the patients all have something wrong up there. In the case of Patient Edwin Spindrift, a Ph.D. and lecturer on linguistics, this seems to be indisputably so. His libido is dead. Ink smells like peppermint to him, hot fat like violets. At the least provocation, Spindrift takes off on obsessive journeys to the roots of words. "What's the difference between 'gay' and 'melancholy'?" asks the doctor. "One is monosyllabic, the other tetrasyllable," Spindrift begins. "One is of French, the other...