Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work with delicate tools to separate the bones from the rock, but already Lewis can describe the animal roughly. It was about as big as a cocker spaniel, with a long, heavy tail. Lewis does not know yet whether it had hair or scales, whether it laid eggs or bore its young alive, or how it made its living. When he has completed his work, he hopes to know all these things about man's low but aspiring ancestor...
...babies at feeding time. At first despite hospital tests they insisted that they, had taken the right babies home to rear. Then, reluctantly, they agreed to switch. Swiss Housewife Madeleine Joye's predicament was even worse. She had no cause to suspect that one of the twins she bore on July 4, 1941 was not her son. True, Philippe grew up skinny and Paul plump: they were "as different as a cock from a rabbit." When the boys were six, Mrs. Joye met little Ernstli, a frail youngster who looked so much like Philippe that she began to wonder...
...playing in, for they are firm believers in what musicians call polytonality. Some tunes, like On the Alamo and Let's Fall in Love, stimulate the Brubeck crew to new and fancier flights, month after month, then drop out of the repertoire when they begin to bore the men. The quartet may swing into These Foolish Things, which seems to remind them of lots of other things (including Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Lazy River), or into Fare Thee Well, Annabelle, which begins with a polytonal fughetta and is interrupted by a hoarse dissonance that sends the whole band...
...ALMANAC OF LIBERTY, by William O. Douglas (409 pp.; Doubleday; $5.50), is remarkable chiefly because it takes one of the year's pleasantest publishing ideas and turns it into a bore. Almanac-browsing is a lost pleasure to most Americans, and this attempt to revive it looks promising-until the reader actually starts to browse. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, prolific writer about his rambles in the Far East, has struck off 366 little devotional essays on American liberty for the "common man's" year (which seems always to be leap year). Author Douglas almost immediately slogs...
...Glasgow Sunday Post, with the largest Sunday circulation in Scotland), Publisher Thomson made his employees sign contracts that forbade them to join unions, was finally forced to back down in 1952 in the face of a threatened boycott of the Trades Union Congress and affiliated unions. His papers always bore the imprint of his crusty personality. After a row with Winston Churchill in 1922 over a political speech, he barred Churchill's name from the Thomson papers until World War II made occasional use of it unavoidable...