Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Festivities will last until hunger threatens or the bowl runs dry, which-ever is earlier...
Thousands of landlubbers had to contend with nature, too; the eastern slope of the Rockies, usually as dry as a bowl of corn flakes during a milk strike, was wet down by torrential rains. Streets were flooded, cows marooned and rivers pushed over their banks in Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas. Almost everywhere else the weather was hot; beer and bathing-suit sales boomed and female sunbathers went to the office looking as though they had been parboiled. The sun was almost the undoing of people near Wilmington, Del., where a dead whale washed ashore and stank up the countryside...
...hands. Another Communist spearhead was within 150 miles of the vital seaport of Foochow. West of Shanghai, Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi's armies withdrew hurriedly as the rugged, battle-tried armies of General Lin Piao opened attack on the industrial center of Hankow, gateway to the "rice bowl of China...
...girl bending to drink from a fountain in Union Square. "I've got pages & pages of sketches of men and girls drinking out of that fountain," she says. "You know, most people lift one leg when they drink. Some put their hands behind them. Others embrace the bowl. But it's so quick and nice - nice-like birds, they drink and fly away - and I have a devil of a time. You could easily pose a person there, of course, but that wouldn't be it. I struggle for months & months to make it look as momentary...
...jurisdictional dispute over who should cure the river's problems. Loggers in Northern New York State are still leaving hanging tree-tops as they timber, making a fine dry roadway for fire above their forests. Old-fashioned farming methods are threatening the Great Plains with another dust bowl...