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Word: bellyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Set beside such stark drama, the rest of the TV week had a trivial look. NBC's Producers' Showcase offered the 12-year-old Bloomer Girl. Like many Broadway musicals transferred to TV, it had some pleasant tunes and a deplorably outdated plot. At week's end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

Like their forebears', the violinmakers' first problem is finding the right wood. Some of it comes from the Italian Tyrol, some from the beams of 16th century buildings-fir for resonant belly and side walls, hard maple for back, neck and scroll. It is seasoned for 25 to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Liutai | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

During predawn darkness in the mid-Pacific atomic proving grounds, the B-52 intercontinental jet bomber Barbara Grace roared upwards from Eniwetok Air Base, the big bomb in its belly. A fleet manned by 13,500 men stood 39 miles off target-Namu Atoll at the northwest edge of Bikini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: From the Air | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

Deep in a forest he met two hermits, with whom he practiced contemplation, until he saw that it led nowhere. Then he attached himself to five ascetics and fasted, until "when I touched my belly I felt my backbone through it." But this, too. proved a spiritual dead end, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buddha's 2,500th | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

It all ends a bit better than that, and on the way, Author De Vries has punned the reader to a pulp, winded him with laughs, and done what only truly funny writers can do: exhibit man, frail and vulnerable, with such true ludicrousness that what starts as a belly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Funny & True | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

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