Word: sweetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, such tastes often exceed what time allows, thereby ensuring that nurseries and garden-supply stores will be well stocked with shortcuts. Since in most cases a silky lawn is out of the question, there is a burgeoning market for "meadows in a can," which promise a vast, sweet meadow right out of a picture book. This illusion too does not come cheap: a 4-oz. can of Rocky Mountain wildflower seed from Smith & Hawken goes...
ADMINISTRATION: Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Teresa A. Foster, Helga Halaki, Katharine K. McNevin, Rafael Soto, Carrie Ross Welch...
...sharps and flats. It is a martial music. It has a jackboot rhythm. Words cannot bend and curve. A comma, by comparison, catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling and returning along the course of its own sweet river music; while the semicolon brings clauses and thoughts together with all the silent discretion of a hostess arranging guests around her dinner table...
...said; `don't waste your time on concrete proposals.' We believed in sweet reason. `[Secretary of State McGeorge] Bundy wants to survive as much as you do,' he said. `What we really need to do is have simultaneous revolutions in the United States and the Soviet Union...We have to create destructive criticism of a destructive system...
...bringing their grandchildren and great-grandchildren back to their old neighborhood for a look around or a day at one of the frequent festivals that celebrate the neighborhood's rich heritage. When they close their eyes and take a deep, long breath, they claim, they can still smell the sweet aroma of cigars...