Word: quaintness
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...apron, the bespectacled owner of the 25-year-old Gallagher's farm market and bakery could barely contain her excitement: "That's wonderful! That's great!" Fire up your ovens! It's a new dawn at the National Cherry Festival, for 72 years a celebrated rite of summer in quaint Traverse City, Mich. For the first time in more than two decades, you'll be able to buy a slice of freshly made cherry pie at the fest, which runs all next week along the breathtaking Grand Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan. Not since Gerald and Betty Ford decided...
They are not angry in New Zigui City, half a day's journey downriver. With its shiny new apartment buildings and broad streets, the town looks as if it has been dropped from the sky onto a hilltop above the site of the new dam. It will replace the quaint old town of Zigui, which will be inundated. And good riddance too, according to Feng Wanhu, a local teacher. "It was dirty, cramped. I lived in a house that was just 10 sq m [100 sq. ft.]. It had no bathroom, no running water, no kitchen inside... Here is much...
Until not so long ago, Sinatra's notion of cool was deader than an imploded casino in Vegas. Bourbon on the rocks and snap-brim hats were your parents'--no, worse, your grandparents'--idea of hip, stuff that looked quaint beside the bug-eyed alienation of the 1960s. Hippies wore blissed-out smiles and ponchos. Sinatra wore cuff links, roughly $30,000 worth in the mid-1950s, when that kind of money bought a house or two. In the Oedipal drama of the counterculture, Frank was the daddy-o who must die. He could swing his raincoat over his shoulder...
...those who have seen a lot of them tend to have more negative views of Checchi) and because Davis has a history of service to the state. Sixty percent of Californians say they are more likely to vote for someone who has considerable political experience. It may be a quaint notion, but a track record--crafting legislation, hammering out consensus, listening to interest groups and collecting chits--still counts for something, even in the virtual wonderland of California. And Davis is right when he argues that the 5 million or 6 million people who will vote in the June...
...will celebrate my mother's life, her dreams and accomplishments. My sister and I will do something that brought my mother joy. We plan to take a trip to one of my mother's favorite havens, the Museum of Fine Arts, and maybe even sip capuccinos outside of a quaint cafe...