Word: bulbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaining: "Serious ... is the lack of replacement parts. To keep working, we have had to replace parts in Furnace Two with parts from Furnace Three; now, we have to replace the missing parts from Furnace Three with parts from Furnace Four." Carpenter Giinter Blankenburg groused that the solitary electric bulb in his barracks gives "less light than a candle flame." But the chief complaint was lack of food: "Sometimes," said Walter Jerkisch, "you can't buy butter or margarine...
Those Old Arabs. Sam Katzman, a bouncy, bulb-shaped 51, has his own formula for keeping his earning record perfect. His five sound stages (at Columbia's dingy old subsidiary studio) are usually buzzing with assorted pygmies, giants, animals (wild and tame), half-dressed women (wild & wild-eyed), cowboys and pâpier-maché interplanetary vehicles. With these props Sam can roll into a picture at the drop of a dollar. Says he: "We don't get stories. We get titles and then write stories around them or to fit them. For instance, we had this title...
...worst confused plant of the Bible is probably the rose. The flower mentioned in Isaiah 35:1 ("and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose") must have been a bulbous plant, probably a narcissus; the original Hebrew word for it means "bulb." Other "roses" were oleanders, anemones, tumbleweeds or crocuses. The biblical "Rose of Sharon" was not the modern rose of Sharon (a kind of hibiscus introduced from China), but probably a tulip...
...consonants and superbly rounded r's, is the same accent he used for credit in Manhattan speakeasies 20 years ago. He cannot be libeled by caricature. The close-cropped, greying hair, the imperiously immobile face, the thin mustache and the prominent nose that terminates in a kind of bulb are even more of a Romanoff trademark than his coat of arms. His most recent crest (supplanting an elaborate compound that included a sheaf of wheat, a gargoyle and a Martini glass) is a chaste pair of back-to-back R's topped by a regal crown...
...ship in the sights, the torpedoes crashing into the sides of the target - those things made any crew jubilant. But then came the Japanese destroyers, the deep submersion, and the suspense at 300 feet below while depth charges searched for the sub, shaking her like a light bulb on a cord. The first time it happened to Trigger, Tokyo Rose claimed her sunk, then played a recording of Rocked in the Cra dle of the Deep. It was a characteristic Japanese extravagance: they claimed 468 subs in the course of the war. U.S. sub losses in the Pacific from...