Word: twittered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nature. Just as the traveling painters of the past century like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran imposed a particular vision of the West on our ancestors, Adams has imposed his on us. It is still America before its fall, a rugged paradise unmarred by the nasty litter and twitter of Homo sapiens. No living photographer of landscape seems able to match the amplitude of Adams' work - those vast and feathered skies, those muscular loops of river, those cannonball moons gravely pre siding over cliffs and rocks that, in their solidity of tone, seem like concretions of geological time...
After Cavalry Lieut. Mark Phillips spent two successive weekends as a guest of Britain's Princess Anne at Sandringham House, London gossips were atwitter at the prospects of the first British royal wedding in more than a decade. The twitter grew louder when the lieutenant, sailing off for a two-year tour of duty in Germany, bade a warm dockside farewell to the Princess in full view of stevedores, soldiers and security guards. "They were just like any other couple saying goodbye to each other," said a guard. "They were two nice little kisses." But to talk...
...well past the 2:15 a.m. departure of David, Julie and Charles. Earlier, unnoticed and in keeping with his welcoming promise that he would "get out of sight so you will feel completely at home," President Nixon sat proudly with Pat on a darkened balcony and watched the youngsters twitter and whirl in the fairyland setting below...
Around the pool lie lovely French birds wearing marvelously brief bikinis, nurses and wives and daughters from the French community of 3,000. They twitter and chat, their enchanting laughter wafting across the crystal pool like a breeze of homesickness...