Word: breast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...300th meeting of the Security Council last week may well have stirred envy in the narrow breast of "Evil-Eye" Fleegle. As readers of Cartoonist Al Capp's Li'L Abner know, Fleegle, a saturnine resident of Brooklyn, has eyes of compelling power. Mother Nature, in a misguided moment, endowed him with the ability to transmit visual whammies. A single whammy can stop a policeman in his tracks. Slightly stronger whammies will tame a gorilla or stun a herd of oxen. Rarely, only rarely, does Fleegle loose the lightning bolt of a double whammy, which is powerful enough...
...film tells much less-in quantity-about Communist spy activities than the daily press has already told. Yet the alarm and breast-beating of the opposition are an understandable tribute to the enormous and unique power of motion picture propaganda in general, and of this film in particular...
When chubby Nell van Vliet, 22, a baker's daughter, arrived from Holland two months ago, she waved her hand at the questions, ticked off U.S. women swimmers: "Free style? Yes, Ann Curtis, the best in the world. Your backstroke swimmers? Two or three good ones. But breast-strokers?" Nell wrinkled her nose significantly. She knew that she was far & away the best woman breaststroke swimmer going...
...Daytona Beach last week, in a practice swim, Nell breast-stroked 220 yards in breath-taking time (16 seconds faster than the record). She seemed to be a cinch to win the A.A.U. crown later in the week. But at the last minute, someone raised the question of whether Netherlands Nell was eligible to compete in a U.S. championship. When embarrassed A.A.U. officials failed to uphold her eligibility at once, Nell withdrew, saved further red faces. Next day, Clara Lamore of Providence won the 220-yard breast stroke in 3:10.5 (more than 19 seconds behind Nell's practice...
Actress Judith Anderson and the producers of the Broadway hit, Medea, resigned from each other, refused to tell anybody what it was all about. Business was fine; breast-beating Star Anderson had been a critical and popular sensation. But now everything was off after May, including next season's road tour. "They thought they knew everything and I knew nothing," was all the star would...