Word: basked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aside from Jimmy, no Carter received more attention than Amy, though she did not invariably bask in it. She lapsed into silences and pouts after too many microphones were thrust into her face and too many inquiries were made that would insult the intelligence of any normal eight-year-old. Did she like the convention? "Not much." Was she thrilled to be in the hall where her father would be nominated for the presidency? "Nope." At a pier party for delegates, she responded to questions about how she felt by saying: "I'm not going to tell...
...dinosaurs were coldblooded, maintains Desmond, they would not have been able to do this because of their size (a brontosaur, for example, weighed around 30 tons); a dinosaur whose body temperature dropped just one degree below the warmth necessary for it to be active would have to bask in the sun for at least several hours to bring it back to normal. Thus, says Desmond, Strithiom-imus, the "ostrich dinosaur," could not have hit the 50 m.p.h. speeds it was said to have attained if it had a physiology comparable with that of a modern-day lizard. The Tyrannosaurus could...
...balmy breeze began to hum a gentle funeral song for the winter of the wet, snowy flake yesterday, as heliomaniacs took to Harvard Yard in droves to bask in the first rays of the spring...
...power. Hah. It's very depressing. And you have to feel most sorry, ruthless or not, for the handsome black man, perhaps in street clothes, perhaps in a number 14, sitting on a bench with his arm curving into an ugly hunk of plaster, watching while the Red Sox bask in the incredible, exhilarating core of an ocean of energy, the high of a pennant race and maybe more...
...94th Congress convened, its arcane opening ritual smacked quaintly of quill pens and snuff. Indeed, the Senate's two snuff boxes were freshly filled as the ten new and 23 re-elected Senators filed down the aisle in groups of four to take their oaths of office and bask in the standing applause of their colleagues. In the House, Democrat Carl Albert and Republican John Rhodes withdrew from the chamber as that body staged its selection of the Speaker. When the foregone vote was over, Rhodes graciously introduced Winner Albert as "my good friend, the leader for all members...