Word: pollenation
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Those who detect a pervasive, low-grade child-aversion in the U.S. find it swarming in the air like pollen. They see a nation recoiling from its young like W.C. Fields beset by Baby Leroy. Of the 50,000 parents who responded to a query by Advice Columnist Ann Landers a while ago, a depressing 70% said...
...gravitate toward people with money," he once said, with winning simplicity. The money brushed off like pollen; at one time or another, Sonnenberg handled the p.r. needs of CBS, Philip Morris, David Sarnoff, Lever Brothers, Samuel Goldwyn, Pan Am, Squibb, Pepperidge Farm and others too numerous to count. A prodigios host and incessant partygiver, he was Manhattan's equivalent of the "talking chief on other, Polynesian islands-the chamberlain who enunciates the real chiefs dicta to the tribe, or, as he put it himself, "I supply the Listerine to the commercial dandruff on the shoulders of corporations...
...Needle, Pollen...
Even in the cities, the rains were not good news for everybody. In Sacramento, which normally has one of the nation's highest hay fever rates, the drought had greatly lowered the pollen count. Hay fever is particularly prevalent now, some doctors say, because the allergy-prone became less resistant during the dry years...
...Needle, Pollen...