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Word: bellyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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At the count of four, Rocky got up and fought back. In the third round Walcott gave up trying for a quick knockout, reverted to his normal counterpunching, backpedaling, hit & run tactics. Frequently looking amateurish against Walcott's artful dodging and skillful clinching, Marciano kept moving in, shaking off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unlucky 13th | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

A few of Epstein's old shockers were in the Tate exhibit, e.g., his 1931 Genesis, showing a heavy-featured woman clutching her pregnant, outthrust belly. "Repellent as ever," observed the Times. But no one was much shocked this time, though the public still preferred his powerfully modeled portrait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Bank of Triumph | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

Several weeks ago a pilotless Hellcat, remote-controlled by radio, was catapulted from the carrier Boxer in the Japan Sea. For the first few minutes the robot's flight was controlled from the carrier's deck; then a piloted AD attack bomber, serving as a guide plane, took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Robots in Action | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

The citizens of the tiny (Connecticut-size) Republic of Lebanon saw their first President, old Sheikh Beshara Khalil el Khoury, as a sort of fat and friendly George Washington, nicknamed him "Abu Kirsh" (Father of Belly). He helped to push first the Turks, later the French out of his land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Exit Father of Belly | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

The opposition called a general strike. Last week. El Khoury asked help to shore up his crumbling regime from General Fuad Shehab, an able nonpolitical military man who commands Lebanon's brigade-sized army. The general politely refused. He added that the army could no longer be depended on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Exit Father of Belly | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

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