Word: belches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rosy Glow. The bull was still scraggly, unsteady on his feet, not quite sure whether he was going to bellow or belch. Though still young enough to be scared by any wisp of bad news that came floating along, he was learning slowly-and, most important of all, putting on a little weight every week. Almost everyone admitted he was a pretty cute trick...
Proper Name. In Watertown, N.Y., Charles H. Belch was hospitalized with gas poisoning...
...wanted to shoot her down. But he only shot photographs with five camera guns. Through his radio he reported: "Rocket dropping away in a glide ... a steady glide . . . still gliding . . . it's exploded. . . ." Vicky had not exploded. Her rocket motors were starting up with a belch of black smoke...
Butterfly's Belch. At every step down the Alley, Fred has to fight the network censors. About these hapless blue-pencilers play the full, fanged lightnings of his wit. "The Molehill Men," he calls them. "A radio censor is a man who comes into his office every morning and finds a molehill on his desk. His job is to build that molehill into a mountain before he goes home." It still gets his sinus in an uproar to recall that during the war he was forbidden to refer slightingly to the Ubangi -because, the censors explained, the Ubangi might...
After boiling up over radio's censors, Fred's cup of wrath floods the entire industry. "The scales have not been invented," he says, "fine enough to weigh the grain of sincerity in radio." And, "Everything in radio is as valuable as a butterfly's belch." Network vice presidents are his favorite dish. They are "a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference." Their conferences are "meetings of men who singly can do nothing, but collectively agree that nothing can be done...