Word: puff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loathe the practice, hunters romance it, just as Hemingway did in that pretty passage. After all, even the argot of the sport is poetry: when a bird sets its wings to come in to feed, it is "whiffing," defined by Webster as moving "with or as if with a puff of air." The hunters themselves have a more evocative term-they call it "maple leafing," a lovely image. To boot, the very names of the birds roll off the tongue like a song: pintails, canvasbacks, eiders and green-headed mallards, snow geese, marsh wrens, white-winged scoters and cinnamon teal...
...combination to hold hair firmly without the stiffness of sprays. They discovered a foam (mousse in French) that could deliver two substances-one for body, one for manageability-which textbooks described as incompatible in a mixture. Some doubters claim the breakthrough is just a lot of air to puff up the cosmetics market. A few users complain that mousse leaves a residue and makes hair pack down. Millions of fans, however, swear by it. Carol Alt, a top Elite model who poses for mousse ads, is a convert. The best part, she says, is that her husband likes its pleasant...
...Peter Paul and Mary album will present an effective mix of sad and allegorical folk songs, angry political songs, and just plain fun songs (like "Puff the Magic Dragon"). The songs, together, inspire the highest human virtues--compassion, justice, tolerance, and, something sorely needed in today's music, hope...
...crowds chanted, "Jesse! Jesse!", Jack son chatted amiably at the airport with Castro. The Cuban gave Jackson a cigar, which the minister, who does not smoke, tried to puff from the wrong end. Castro said that he was releasing the prisoners "as a gesture to Jackson and to the American people...
...cigarette manufacturer's dream: a market where the laws do not require harsh health warnings on package labels or no-smoking sections in restaurants, and where 250 million people each puff an average of half a pack...