Word: petaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resented having to pour tea for Rio matrons while Carlosinho stepped out; she also resented the gossips' talk that, if she failed to appear in public for a few days, she was waiting at home for the black & blue marks of Carlos' annoyance to fade from her petal-soft skin. "I just can't make myself over in the Brazilian pattern," she decided, and divorced...
Hattori sometimes writes his own lyrics, but often leaves the chore to others, who have that strange poetic touch which knocks the Japanese for a loop, but leaves a Westerner vaguely feeling as if someone has been beating him over the head with a chrysanthemum petal. The lyrics to Hattori's hit of the week, Aoi Sammyaku...
...crowds at Los Angeles' Palladium are often on the thin side, but last week the evening brought out 7,622 croon fans, come to listen to a voice that one of its admirers once described as having "the virility of a goat and the delicacy of a flower petal." They sat patiently on the huge, circular dance floor through the preliminary stuff-Ike Carpenter's band, the Bobby True Trio, but when the main event came on they howled with delight. And when 35-year-old, toupee-topped Crooner Frankie Laine finally let them have what they wanted...
...Terra hopes for better evidence. In April he will study the steep slopes of Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl (pronounced Po-po-ca-tay-petal and Eesta-see-wattle), the peaks hanging over the Valley of Mexico. He believes that the valley was covered by a high-level lake during the prehistoric rainy spell. If this is true, there should be beach formations high up on the slopes, and Dr. de Terra may find more proof of human activity in Mexico...
...tribute to Peru's guano birds. They "leave a ... magic nitrogen fluid ... a concentrated essence of a longing for the sky, which . . . liberates the roots from the prison of the furrow, animates the stem, lifts the branches and raises flowers into the air-and makes the petal wings tremble like a little bird avid for space and freedom...