Word: boiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment later a curling snake began to take form on the WAAF. Tattooist Bell, intent on the job, paused to examine his canvas. "You've had a boil or something here," he said. "That's where my wife bit me," said Cecil Lambert. "He rammed that hussy in my mouth," said Mrs. Lambert. "Well, say goodbye to her now," said Charlie as he drew his needle over the WAAF's head...
...adroit mixture of sharply worded advice and blunt humor. "Life," he explains to his ten million listeners, "is a matter of moments that are lost and bowels that are distended." His descriptions of ailments are calculated to shock hypochondriacs out of their introspective gloom ("Just think of a boil-as round as a football, as red as a raspberry, as tender as the treacly smile of a lovesick maiden...
...becomes snarled in a welter of tedious recriminations, a vicious behind-the-scenes economic battle comes far closer to splitting the East and West than any so-called ideological warfare. Iran, keystone of an important Anglo-American oil reservoir, is the stage for an oil dispute that threatens to boil over momentarily. Skittish over Russian expansion towards the Persian Gulf, the United States has influenced Iran to disavow a proposed oil-rights contract with Russia in a move that has Moscow frothing. This most recent indication of a return to the naked power politics of pre-war years defeats...
...makes my blood boil," wrote Mrs. Wilson C. Bridges, "to think that children see such pictures. . . . I'm a soldier's wife . . and know there are many women who suffer terrible disgrace just because of such horrible pictures [see cut] which cause straying thoughts and lead to divorce.. . . God has provided us with clothes, so let's wear them...
...winds lost much of their icy speed and became a lowering cold front that pushed down the Coast and across the eastern ranges. Snow startled San Francisco for the first time in five years. Over Colorado, the cold front rammed a tropic air mass. Slowly, it began to boil...