Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...PEDDLING BUG SPRAY AND LIBERALISM...
...Judge cartoon led to a livelihood. In it, a dragon crawls ferociously into the bed of a "mediaeval tenant" who complains, "And just after I'd sprayed the whole castle with Flit!" Flit was a bug spray, and its manufacturer, Standard Oil of New Jersey, soon hired Geisel to create an ad campaign. "Quick Henry the Flit!" became one of the best-known catch phrases from between the wars. (It lingered decades later in a cartoon, appearing in one of Harvey Kurtzman's magazines - Trump or, more likely, Help! As I recall it, a man summons his butler with...
...well that you hardly notice. Every season, New Jersey Mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) outwits his rivals and deceives his family, friends and therapist, all while remaining oblivious to his failings. His marriage to Carmela (Edie Falco) unravels as he chases anything with legs and hair spray and she pursues sad, unconsummated flirtations. Mobsters from the past return to the scene and start turf wars. The feds circle but never manage to bust Tony. People die in drolly creative ways. And when the season is over after three months, we pray for the next year or so until...
...category this year. Do you think that any of the dark horses have a chance? Or will the show’s only suspense be the question of how Billy Crystal spoofs last year’s Brody/Berry kiss? (Jack Palance, get out your breath spray...
...shallow irrigation trench winds away from the women splashing in the spray of a newly dug well, cuts through a patch of tall grass and curves past the spot where John Makur Agok tends to his peace dividends: a fragile array of seedlings swaddled in black plastic, a future of lemons, oranges, mangoes, papayas and dates. "What shows that I've resettled," says the rangy 43-year-old farmer, "is that I'm planting all these trees - and there's nothing to disturb them." For two decades, the people in Agok's village of Mayenwal have lived a life...