Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There was children's wash hanging in the living room, which was moved for the occasion to the kitchen. Some old furniture. School books. Our host served wine from a huge dusty jug, itself an idiosyncratic and mature thing to be doing in those days. We had dinner, some sort of casserole. Talk. More wine. We listened to our host's Dixieland records. His wife tended the baby, smoked cigarettes, sometimes laughed, looked tall amd tired. All I could think of was: he and she will be sleeping together tonight, in the same bed, touching, panting, writhing...sex! Our host...
...April 3, 1948. Two weeks after that the freighter John H. Quick left Galveston, Texas, with 9,000 long tons of wheat for France - the first item of a vast outpouring of aid that would eventually include machine tools, farm equipment and raw materials of almost every sort...
...That first shot of Scotch or bourbon-consumed, perhaps, during a surreptitious afternoon raid on Dad's liquor cabinet-tasted invariably like oil, or worse. For those who could not acquire the taste for the hard stuff, the answer was abstinence, beer or some sort of cocktail. Today, many liquor companies are gambling that there is a new category of American-those weaned on Tootsie Rolls, malts and Life Savers -who have been panting for something else: a souped-up soft drink...
...fell in love at first sight. It's the sort of city I'm glad to be married to." The indefatigable Composer-Director-Impresario Gian Carlo Menotti was at it again, in what could be the greatest -and riskiest-romance of his long career in music and the performing arts: launching an American version of Italy's Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C. Menotti created the original festival in June 1958, transforming the quiet old Umbrian hill town of Spoleto into an international center of the arts...
...doubt the society needs ants more than grasshoppers, who jump dazzlingly but probably don't keep up their aerobics points. Perhaps each sort of bug should listen to Dr. George Sheehan, 58, marathoner, author (Dr. Sheehan on Running) and cardiologist: "Play is the priceless ingredient in any successful fitness program. But ... play is not just fun and pleasure. It has to do with human need. Fitness is something that has purpose but no meaning. Play is something that has meaning but no purpose; fitness is a bonus in play, and people are finally learning how to play...