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Word: waxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their feelings for women, they submerge their love for each other. The frustrated lovers transfer their apprehension about homosexuality to their heterosexual relationships. It is too easy a solution. The candle that emitted illuminating rays in the first act has burned down to leave only an amorphous mass of wax...

Author: By Hilary B. Klein, | Title: Passable Strangers | 3/18/1977 | See Source »

...without forgetting its original wood. That is, there is a soaring upward movement to the composition like a requiem sung to exalt and commemorate the dead. It echoes of a Gothic Cathedral's flying buttresses, and yet it is all on a small scale and an observer could either wax metaphysical about such images or simply enjoy Thompson's wood-craftmanship and skill with pattern...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Allegro in Spruce | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

...Houston managed to wax his boards adequately and finished in 21st place, his best finish as a Harvard skier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffe Soars, Harvard Drags in Skiing | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

...other Crimson skiers were less fortunate with the wax, none finishing higher than 35th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffe Soars, Harvard Drags in Skiing | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

...that included St. Peter. To the relief of the early Christian spectators, Magus suffered an instant-and fatal-crash. Haining wistfully relates the tale of Bladud, a doomed 9th century British king, who borrowed a page from Greek mythologies and perished like Icarus with a pair of feather-and-wax wings. George Faux, a 19th century English eccentric was more fortunate. In 1862 he jumped from a roof, flapped his arms violently and plummeted, bruised but undiscouraged, to the ground. "I'm really a good flyer," he explained as he staggered from the crash site. "But I cannot alight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up and Away | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

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