Word: abound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spaniel (Lady) and a mongrel (Tramp) from the wrong side of the tracks. But, in humoring dog lovers, Disney may well lose friends among cat fanciers for his venomous portrait of a brace of Siamese cats (named Si and Am) that are noticeably lacking in the virtuous qualities that abound in the canine kingdom...
...score of Seventh Heaven was concocted--written would hardly be the correct word--by Victor Young, whose previous efforts were restricted mostly to background music for motion pictures. His tunes abound with sound effects, including a multitude of blaring trumpet calls and drum rolls, but they make only a momentary impression. Young apparently aimed his songs at the jukebox trade, hoping to have them hammered irretrievably into the memories of the public. After hearing them only once, however, I found that I neither could nor wanted to remember any of them...
...Just Joe. In this setting dwell some of the most primitive white people in North America, the Gatineau mountaineers. They scratch out a meager living by farming and lumbering. Faith healers, seers and hermits abound among them. Families sometimes grow so big that parents run out of names. The woods are populated with brothers named Black Luke and Red Luke, Little Joe, Big Joe and Just...
...peel straight into the mouth of a zoo keeper's sack-but the three remaining holdouts had grown shrewder than ever. In the end, it was only the perversity of fate and their common simianity that brought them down. One day last week, unused to the perils that abound in freedom, one of the monkeys was hit by a passing automobile. As he lay in the road, stunned but unhurt, a lurking keeper took him captive...
Since the oil-forming sediments and the underlying salt sweep beyond the coastline where domes abound, the oil geologists reasoned that there should be domes under the Gulf, too. They took their instruments to sea and found that the salt domes march, rank upon rank, to the edge of the continental shelf, more than 100 miles from land...