Word: plucking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...largest industry here is apple picking; in the autumn, the town's nine major orchards--its largest employers--draw busloads of tourists eager to pluck Macintosh and Granny apples from the ripe trees...
...largest industry here is apple picking; inthe autumn, the town's nine major orchards--its largest employers--draw busloads of tourists eager to pluck Macintosh and Granny apples from the ripe trees...
...Palm Beach Story, as well as a pre-Liz Taylor Cleopatra, she played women who, through charm and technique, had to persuade society that they were something other, better, more glamorous than they really were. In doing so, she became the epitome of couture elegance and city-girl pluck. The Colbert heroine walked the earth in sensible shoes and met each adversity with a throaty, musical laugh. Sophisticated but not stuffy, a superior creature who never condescended, she proved the maxim that a woman should be, first and foremost, a lady. Her characters flummoxed leading men into stammering or spouting...
Ooohh. Owww. You can just about hear the collective groans. In leaning over to pluck the latest wonder treatment for wrinkles or hair loss off store shelves, baby boomers keep being reminded of another skirmish in the Sisyphean battle against time: their aching backs. About 80% of all men and women will suffer from back pain at some time during their lives, and an estimated third of those between the ages of 40 and 55 are struggling with it right now. But doctors can definitively diagnose the problem in only about 10% of cases. Curing the ache is even trickier...
...grew up in Marblehead, Mass., the alleged birthplace of the U.S. Navy and the home of the "Spirit of '76," the famous painting epitomizing the pluck and tenacity of the soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Marblehead is a small, historic town marked by sites at which both Lafeyette and Washington slept...