Word: blob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finds that the bullet has shattered a vertebra. No operation is possible. His skill, which has saved so many lives that mean little to him, can do nothing for Joan, who means much to him. Joan dies the day the Germans invade Poland, and the world, like a blob of soggy ice cream oozing off a spoon, slides into World...
...British are definitely predominant in downtown Athens. They look well, and behave even better. Athens is clean, bright, and almost gay, compared with Italian cities and Belgrade. Sidewalk cafes are crowded with Englishmen and Greeks willing and able to pay 35? for a tiny blob of ice cream and 20? for a thimbleful of coffee...
Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), whose designs are both whirling and geometrical, hated the thought of painting "dogs, vases, naked women." To him "a circle is a living wonder" and a blob of color is enough to convey a mood (blue, "the typical heavenly color," stands for rest; blue-black for grief; violet, the echo of grief; green is "the bourgeoisie -self-satisfied, immovable, narrow...
Even that little blob of "essential civilian" production was a notable victory for tiny, grey Arthur D. Whiteside, chief of WPB's underprivileged Office of Civilian Requirements. Arthur Whiteside took his job seven months ago with the clear understanding that all he could hope to offer the U.S. civilian would be an occasional scrap from the military's groaning table. For months he battled with the Services just for the privilege of using the scraps. The military can spare the scraps all right, but they feared (and still fear) that U.S. civilians will automatically conclude that...
Every time De Gaulle and Giraud had seemed on the point of agreeing on some form of cooperation, butter had got in the works. Latest blob of butter was the appointment by Giraud of Marcel Peyrouton as Governor General of Algeria. In 1940 Peyrouton was a Minister in the Vichy government; before that he was Vichy Resident General in Tunisia; to General de Gaulle he was unpalatable...