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Word: bellyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The memory of this fellowship I carry emblazoned on my fading consciousness. It is the memory of staggering upstairs from the dining hall to my moist and tropical room, my belly swelled with an evening feast of boiled potato, wads of creamy butter, rice pudding, French bread, crispy pie crust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A HOUSE IS A HOME | 10/23/1958 | See Source »

"Shake It, Gal." At the Cobb County Fair in Marietta, Ga., the purple cotton candy and the foot-long hot dogs were going great. Duck-tailed farm boys and their girls rode the Ferris wheel for a high-arcing view of the cornfields of home. The talker (spieler) turned them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No More Rubes | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

Still Buried. After the experiment in systematic derangement ends in scandal and squalor, Claude makes his way back to Cambon. He is weak and ill. In the writing of A Season in Hell, he chokes down his poetry and his past. His exit line: "No more words. I bury the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Damnedest of the Damned | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

In their rather touching desire to make the customers happy, Mr. Abbott and the authors have found a niche in their operations for the well-known strip-teaser Sherry Britton. Though Miss Briton displays an agreeably athletic navel in some belly-dancing sequences, her presence in the cast is the...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Drink to Me Only | 9/27/1958 | See Source »

So far 77's planes are flying armed only with conventional weapons. "We are not flying loaded for bear, but for rabbit," said one pilot wryly. But on the deck of each of her carriers, right over the "special weapons" bay, stands a single A3D bomber. An armed marine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE TENSE TIGER | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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