Word: spurns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phrase of the playwrights) with all the "fers, plumbs and cottonwood-blooming times" and a script that should burn in the fires of hell. And while they wallow in this sty of Appalachia, adultery and brimstone (and anything else moral that you happen to think of), do not spurn them for their transgressions, for the performance was near as good what mortals might have done. But what a stupid story...
...ever seen such a fireball. John Cabot, chairman of Distrigas, scoffs that a catastrophe is "a lurid image in search of a believable scenario." Whatever their ultimate volume, though, LNG imports are sure to rise; they constitute a supplemental form of energy that the U.S. simply cannot spurn...
...introduced water rationing. Denver officials have rigidly restricted lawn watering to three hours every third day by threatening violators with fines. Water consumption in June and July dropped 28% from a prior five-year average for the same period. Typically, Denver Lawyer Tim Segar says he and his wife spurn dinner parties because it is their sprinkler night: "Friends also can't come over to our house, because they have to stay home and water." Similar restrictions are in force in a few towns in Oregon and Washington...
...Puck (Lewis Gordon) who sprinkles the distilled magic flower potion onto the eyelids of the dreamers at the wrong time as it is the master-hand of the Bard. It is he who wakens the star-vexed lovers and sets them in pursuit of those who will scornfully spurn them. It is he who inspires the Queen of the Fairies, Titania (Maggie Smith), to dote in adoration on Bottom (Alan Scarfe) after the head of an ass has been grafted...
...UpDK, the organization which supposedly handles the needs of foreigners--Leona Schecter had to bribe the UpDK carpenters with an agreed amount of vodka to get them to repair her apartment. While most Soviet citizens sincerely sing praises of communism, like the carpenters they are never ones to spurn the occasional niceties of capitalism that may float their...