Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stag party, which ended with everybody getting sick and some guests going to the hospital. As usual, TIME'S Medicine editor made no suggestions or recommendations about the use of antabus. He is gratified, nevertheless, at this impressive evidence of the readership his section has-right around the world...
...beside the car down Capitol Hill. It was a brisk, 46-minute walk and everyone made it except George Hardy, who got a stitch in his side, and "Deadman" Riley, who just got tired. The others all felt fine, although afterwards they began to stiffen up a bit, sitting around in the chill breeze...
...cannot listen to music too often. It affects my nerves and makes me want to say sweet nothings and stroke the heads of men who live in a dirty hell and can still create such beauty. But these days you can't go around stroking people's heads lest your hand be bitten off. You have to smash them over the head-smash them without mercy-even though in theory we are against every form of oppression of mankind . . . ours is a hellish task...
...Sunday, the first full day of peace, there was a holiday spirit among Peiping's 2,000,000 residents. Bazaars were crowded as prices dropped. In preparation for the Chinese New Year (Jan. 29), firecracker makers started working around the clock catching up on time lost during the siege when their wares were banned. Said a shopkeeper on Flower Street: "Now we can have plenty of chaotse (steamed meat dumplings) on New Year's night. If peace had not come, flour would have been too expensive...
...popcorn to illustrate his working methods to reporters. "I begin with something like this," he explained, delicately selecting a kernel and gazing at it through tortoise-shell glasses. "I see just what expression it takes and develop that. Now this little bump here looks like a branch. Turn it around and we have a head, or a flower. But I don't want a head, a branch or a flower, so I mold it a bit"-giving the kernel a cruel squeeze-"or I may throw it away." And with an expression of critical disdain he threw...