Word: watermelon
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...burdened with unexciting, almost identical titles (Pastors and Masters, Daughters and Sons, Men and Wives, Parents and Children, etc.). All are about the same thing-a family struggling under the rule of one or more domestic tyrants. All consist of conversation to the extent that a watermelon consists of water-conversation in which satire and terrifying realism are couched and half-concealed in a difficult, dead-pan prose...
...near midnight. In the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, far above the bedlam on the street below, a waiter picked his way past tired newsmen and rapped on the door of Room 808. On his tray were six slices of cantaloupe and seven of watermelon...
Coach Mikkola made sure his athletes didn't get watermelon heads after their third win in a row last Saturday. He put a chart up on the board at Dillon giving Dartmouth a five point bulge in the scoring...
Early this year, a man walked into the Detroit offices of the Kresge Co.'s variety chain. He introduced himself to the merchandising manager, then took out a small pipe no bigger than a soda straw and quickly blew a glasslike bubble as big as a watermelon. Then he detached it and handed it to the merchandising manager. Bubble in hand, the manager hastily called a meeting of Kresge's entire sales department to consider this wonderful...
...Dallas, one blistering afternoon last week, a wilted and red-faced businessman walked into Little Brother Runnells' outdoor watermelon garden and sank down on a chair. He ordered a slice of cold watermelon and stared at it with a kind of torpid cunning. He made it last a long time. He built a juicy suspension bridge by excavating delicately at the center of the slice, then wrecked it slowly, sadly, and with infinite care. He counted the black seeds on his plate before he dragged himself back to the unthinkable horrors of his desk, his telephone and his electric...