Word: shades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tossed into a dark room just off of the landing. The door is slammed in the face of the friendly mob of dogs, who have followed me faithfully up the stairs. The room, once lit, turns out to be extremely large, about 35 feet long, and painted a strange shade of pinkish orange. There are two enormous desk-size color TV sets as well as a couple of legitimate desks, a spherical environmental chair with an unexploded artillery shell inside, a long couch covered with flower prints and wall shelves filled with gun manuals and almanacs. However, there...
...than physical preparation." As his players looked on first with awe, then growing respect, Akers and his assistants put in grueling 14-hour days. Their dedication proved contagious. Says Interested Observer Royal: "He is willing to pay the price in long hours, elbow grease and getting out of the shade...
...running for Senate majority whip in 1964 when the matter of the desk came up. Long needed every vote he could command or cajole from his colleagues. His was a classic dilemma, solved in classic Russell Long style. He cut a deal ? first with his father's shade, then with Olin Johnston. On bended knee, he explained his sacrilege: "Daddy, forgive me, but this time I'm going for broke...
This has got to be the easiest kind of story in the world to write, a color piece on a football game where every shade and hue was painted from the palette of one man, one artist...
...Frank Trippett, your beautiful "Season for Hymning and Hawing" [Sept. 19] will help me sublimate my painful yearnings for a northern autumn while I sweat in the non-shade of a Florida palm tree...