Word: waxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What are George Washington's new false teeth made from? Hippopotamus tusks set in pink sealing wax...
...comfortable with technology. For someone who mastered with infectious enthusiasm retro rockets and fuel tanks, and could wax positively ecstatic over a million pounds of thrust, he cannot rewind his tape recorder. The mighty fall hard: midway through our interview, which Cronkite said he was taping "for my memoirs," the tape...
...quick Andover penalty followed and McLoughlin again responded for his third goal of the day on a pass from John Grogan. But both momentum and time ran out on the Crimson's comeback try when Andover put a hot wax shine on their margin with a final rally at 11:36 of the final stanza...
...measure of a person's importance is the distance between the radiator and his statue in Madame Tussaud's wax museum. Last week Lord Snowdon, returning to London for the first time since the announcement of his separation from Princess Margaret, discovered another yardstick. His Tussaud statue has not been melted. But it has been carted up to a storeroom above the exhibition hall. Tony will have some company in exile. Among his companions in the closet: former President Richard Nixon, who was removed from view after his resignation...
...TRUE LETTER...should be as a film of wax pressed close to the graving of the mind." So, in 1907, 25-year-old Virginia Stephen--soon to become Virginia Woolf--began her first long letter to Clive Bell, her new brother-in-law. Yet what follows is one of the most awkward, befuddled, pretentious things she ever wrote. Rather than simply telling him she has gotten a telegram, she writes...