Word: plum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drifted from Alan Watts' latest treatise to the whereabouts of the celebrated soprano who had been vacationing on the far bank of the Neckar. I thought I recognized one of the young men from The Whiskey, who turned to me. "Alexis' sister?" he asked, "don't you like the plum cake? You're not eating anything." Except for the presence of the servant, I felt particularly at ease with this mildly pretentious intellectual crowd and their coffee-table chit-chat. The sun pouring in the window relaxed the guests, who sat on ottomans around the black grand piano...
...roused from my reverie, I realized that the gibberish they uttered was German, not the vacuous, unintelligible, pinball-punctuated banter overheard on Bow Street. I smiled, shaking my head at my own silliness, and, as Oscar was fairly imploring me, I decided to try a piece of the plum cake after...
...rights violence throughout the South. He was in Dallas almost by accident on Nov. 22, 1963, and he coordinated nearly four days of the Kennedy assassination coverage from the scene. CBS rewarded him with the job of White House correspondent in the new L.B.J. Administration, then offered him the plum of a foreign assignment. With London as his base, Rather soon found himself dodging shells on the India-Pakistan border, watching the beginnings of a civil war in Greece, staring at armed and edgy Red Chinese soldiers down the Natu La pass in the Himalayas. He hounded the home office...