Word: blob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blob of metal was gingerly toted out of a New Jersey aircraft-engine factory, carefully deposited on the seat of an automobile, carted across the Hudson and hoisted to the RCA building's 32nd floor. A pudgy little man, Perry William Brown, 55, assistant works manager of Wright Aeronautical Corp., told assembled newsmen proudly: "There...
Swiss Psychiatrist Hermann Rohrschach started something when he began making blot-pictures, by folding a piece of paper on a blob of ink. He showed the "pictures" to patients in a sanitarium and asked them what they saw. He tried hundreds of blot-pictures, finally selected ten which seemed to bring out the clearest responses. Today, after 20 years, psychologists all over the world have adopted his blots, use the Rohrschach Test not only to ferret out neuroses but also for vocational testing...
...Fort Benning when Sergeant Pullen's tank rumbled into line with the rest of Company D and the 68th Armored Regiment. Company D was well back in the regimental column. The Old Man, with the visiting generals and civilians around him near the reviewing tower, was an indistinguishable blob to Sergeant Pullen and his men. An officer's indeterminate bellow floated down the wind. Sergeant Pullen and his three-man crew took their places in front of the tank. Their gloved hands rose to the salute, held it for three aching minutes. A band blared...
...printed a cartoon of Flynn peering under a bed for hobgoblins; the Oregonian's cried scornfully: "A fine set of knaves to be accusing the press of misuse of its freedom!" Said Thomas Radcliffe Hutton of the Binghamton Press in Mr. Flynn's home State: "... a political blob of which Jim Farley never would have been guilty." Said the forthright Seattle Times, reverting to old-fashioned style in a bold Gothic headline: "You lie, Mr. Flynn...
...Middle East took all this Italian excitement calmly enough. At Ismailia their Commander in Chief, General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, presented colors to a detachment from surrendered Syria?French soldiers dressed in British uniforms. He and they welcomed news that the Frenchmen of French Equatorial Africa, France's big blob of territory south of Libya, had elected to fight on with Britain, that there were strong stirrings in French West Africa to join them (see p. 28). Australian anti-aircraftmen arrived and set up their guns in Cairo ?a sure sign that Egypt expected an Italian attack soon, since...