Word: bellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back to nature. Clothes that cling are quite the thing. If nature gave you nothing to cling to, new girdles and heavy belts that push protoplasm where it belongs are also available. In a burst of remarkable reason, designers have decided to cover this nude look with coats that bellow out from the shoulder in barrel or bell forms and wander vaguely down to a faltering stop somewhere between the hip and knee. A tight skirt carries on from there, giving the overall effect of a candle being snuffed with...
...first suggested that the call was unimportant in this case since the National Committeewoman from Puerto Rico was married to one of the Rump delegates, and then harrangued his colleagues on Gate's part in the deal--accusing the General Counsel of personally arranging yet another "steal." A bellow issued from the audience, and Gates himself marched to the podium. There, on a point of personal privilege quickly granted by the Chair, he defended himself passionately and at great length...
...were always jammed, and his course on modern Europe was the most popular elective in Princeton's history. Once a student did fall asleep-after having taken the milk train in from Manhattan. The Buzzer spotted the sleeper, tiptoed to his seat, bent down, and let out a bellow: "Princeton Junction! Change for Princeton!" The student never dozed again...
...large proportion of the council's art purchases have been moderns, and this fact alone has been enough to set conservatives bellowing. Last year, the old guard even got a chance to bellow with laughter : the council paid out ?500 for a spiky abstraction called Autumn Landscape which proved to be so thoroughly abstract that it got printed upside down in the Festival of Britain catalogue. But doughty Horse Painter Sir Alfred Munnings, 73, onetime president of the Royal Academy, was not amused. "This thrusting of . . . third-rate opinions down the throats of a public who still believe...
...Literal Mind. In San Francisco, Elliott Poor was booked for public drunkenness after he climbed an 80-ft, chimney, began to bellow the first verse of On Top of Old Smoky, told rescuers: "I just felt like getting high...