Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Giscard enjoyed some swimming, tennis and boating in the privacy of a Cote d' Azur estate bor rowed from Prince and Princess de la Tour d'Auvergne. "My vacation I devote especially to my children," declared Giscard to a French reporter, then came in out of the sun for a quick shuttle flight to Paris for a Cabinet meeting...
...more than a century, residents of New York City's borough of Brooklyn have been bunking into friends over on Toidy-Toid or Eighty-Foist streets or udder pernts around the place. Whether they ogled da goils, hersted da flag or simply berled in the noonday sun, they absolutely moidered the King's English. The "vulgar speech" that H.L. Mencken denounced in The American Language was long the despair of philologists, as well as a rich source of argot and gag lines for stand-up comics. But now Brooklynese seems to have just about gone...
...coddled with his own 200-ft. by 75-ft. "Shark City" workshop and a corps of 23 crewmen in daily attendance, all of Bruce's schizoid personae are temperamental. He has a shocking tendency to corrode after his daily saltwater swishing. His grainy skin is subject to sun bleach too, so every week he needs a new epidermis. When not skillfully supervised, in fact, Bruce simply gets out of hand. Three weeks ago, during a difficult diving scene, he hauled off and rammed headfirst into his control platform. His nose job took a week, adding another delay...
Even if Viking fails to detect living things, there is always the possibility that life on Mars is based on a chemistry different from that of any known life forms, or that it sought shelter even deeper in the ground as protection against the sun's deadly ultraviolet rays...
After a peaceful, sun-filled summer, I was re-energized by the solar rays and comforts of home. I rediscovered the casual, friendly, and easy-going manner of the majority of people at home and even the plastic L.A. sensations. And it was no wonder that they were healthy, relaxed human-beings--they didn't have to spend six months of the year cramped indoors because of the slushy snow and dismal rain outside...