Word: sap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sap of young blood rises, Ches and Finn do their share of "kissin' and bleedin' like the Cloonies." When the light is doused on a picnicking foray into a sea cave, Ches feels the touch of a woman's hand. "The fingertips of my right hand then encountered the woman's breast. The touch was fugitive: yet how sweet it was when the fingertips were young and the touched breast, too, was young." But the girl is English and wealthy as well, and before the two fall fairly in love, her father's gamekeeper trounces...
...After all, one has to keep up with the next-door Ecleses. Jeff never cracks book; culture is his wife's department. He gets his fun shooting deer with a few old cronies from the Chowder & Marching Society. But he sends his boy & girl to Eastern schools to sap up "assurance." His kids baffle Jeff. Why did Tom become a commercial artist instead of coming into the business? Why does Tinker feel Gateway is dreary, her family "common"? Jeff yearns for the simple days of bathtub gin and Coolidge prosperity...
This critical chill, and the toll that radio and concerts took from her, began to sap Patrice's morale. She almost began to doubt whether she had picked the right career. Perhaps she should have stayed in Spokane and married her old sweetheart, after all. Teacher Herman's first hard words came back: "Even if you do get anywhere, a career is often a heartbreaking thing . . ." At the age of 21, the prodigy was a veteran who was beginning to feel perilously like a failure...
...when her husband went back to his job as director of agriculture for North Borneo, Mrs. Keith was still too weak to go. A year later, when she rejoined him, friends called her a-"poor sap." But she was determined to help "those who had saved our lives at the risk of their own." She got a quick taste of change at a stopover in Hong Kong. "The place was overflowing with Chinese gold and jewels, and the Asiatic class which these possessions now represented looked confident and opulent in contrast to the threadbare Anglo-Saxons who had only their...
Such soft talk showed that the Communists might really want peace in Korea-if the price is right. For the future, it inspired as many misgivings as hopes. The Kremlin's fixed tactics are to slash weakness with armor, to sap strength with wiles. Out of the MacArthur hearing, the Kremlin learned that the end of U.S. patience was near. The Kremlin's obvious advantage is to unwind U.S. determination, take the urgency out of the West's rearmament. So the Kremlin whispered tantalizingly of peace. That is the time of peril-the time of the Truce...