Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The story "Mysterious Trail" in TIME, July 28 of Professor Ernest Rudge and the pudding stones was of more than ordinary interest to me. Two years ago, my wife and I visited Grime's Graves at Weeting in Norfolk and were taken by the British Ministry of Works'...
¶ On Roaring Mountain by Lemonade Lake is about an adulteress who is shot dead by her husband and goes to Hell. The Devil is there to meet her-"a naked gigantic man" with "flat muscled belly and symmetrical widespread legs." He is "reckless," "virile," "resistless," "incontestable," "beautiful," "sinister," "primordial...
Canada thinks that a close, critical look at the domestic policies of its Commonwealth cousins would show where a good part of the responsibility lies for the sterling area's ills. The government instructed Norman Robertson, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, to put a discussion of those policies...
Ike Eisenhower's decision to speak off the cuff as much as possible has helped to get him across to his audiences. Ike, however, sometimes seems to have a balloon up that cuff. A sentence will start simply, belly out and break loose from its grammatical moorings. Sometimes it...
He toyed with a harpsichord and browsed through his favorite books. A bachelor to the end, he interested himself in such things as gothic wallpaper, and compiled huge collections of notes for works he never executed. He pondered long and often on his special afflictions, melancholy and gout, and showed...