Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The camera itself does not move; mounted rigidly in the airplane, it is eight feet high, has a focal length of 48 in., weighs about 1,500 Ibs. Protruding below the plane's belly is a 90-lb. prism that rotates across the airplane's line of flight...
Lieut. Colonel William E. Bertram of Chicago was heating water on a gasoline burner-for a bath in the half-shell of a discarded belly tank. Bertram gave his story of last week's first big battle between the enemy's Russian-made MIG-15s and U.S. F...
Jazz: Volumes I & II (Folkways Records; 4 sides LP). An interesting anthology, compiled mostly from old records, which traces the long journey of jazz, both hot and blue, from contemporary (i.e., U.S.) origins. It includes such rare and worthwhile items as the Negro sermon (with accompanying chanting) Dry Bones; the...
But comparing the average comic strip to Li'l Abner is like comparing an ordinary cocktail to a dipperful of Capp's own Kickapoo Joy Juice, a liquor of such stupefying potency that the hardiest citizens of Dogpatch, after the first burning sip, rise into the air, stiff...
After a few years of civilian practice, Radiologist Brown realized that some of the warty growths which plagued him were cancerous. He went back to Massachusetts, eked out an existence on an Army disability pension. Over the years he submitted to 50 or more operations. Every few weeks, when he...