Word: amazonian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...honorary president (she says) of a professional boxers' association. Arriving from the House of Commons by bus. Bessie togged in her usual drab blue suit, swept past the club's haughty doormen, bounced inside to utter some dock-walloper pleasantries. To some of London's uppercrustiest, amazonian Mrs. Braddock announced: "I intend as a reciprocal arrangement to invite Miss Dietrich along to the House of Commons." Society patrons responded with a hoarse cheer so blatant that Marlene, entering in a bit of gossamer so diaphanous that Britain's press fears to publish photos...
...made with the help of a Texas drilling firm hired by Petrobras, eased the pain. By itself the well is only a drop in the barrel of Brazil's oil needs. But it lies in a vast, geologically uniform sedimentary basin, and heralds-or so Brazilians hope-many Amazonian gushers to come...
...morning's drive to the palace, he ordered the escort abolished. At least once in the first week he dashed home, stripped off coat and tie, and lunched in comfort with his wife and son Eduardo, 11. He some times likes to relax with his collection of stuffed Amazonian birds and beasts, or putter around making coffee in the kitchen (see cut). Said Café Filho: "I see no reason why as President of the republic I should change my lifelong habits of a simple man who always lived among the people...
...three long years, Emily, Blunt and his Rev fought a ding-dong struggle, resolved only when Blunt's own daughter pitched into her father with Amazonian fury. Poor Emily emerged still a virtuous girl, but heartbroken. "With my reason and my conscience," she cried to his Rev, "I am obliged to own him a villain . . . [but] my heart cries...
Food in the Sea. Author Alain Bombard's Atlantic adventure, set down in The Voyage of the Heretique, was even more primitive than Gheerbrant's Amazonian hardships. For 65 days and nights, from the Canaries to the West Indies, he was alone on the vast waters of the ocean (TIME. Jan. 5. 1953), living only on the fish and birds he could catch and eat raw and the liquid he could get from...