Word: camelizing
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...DOTTY OLD women shuffled along, their heads bobbing slightly, their eyes a little glazed. One wore a plain black shift, the other a camel suit and wool hat. No one recognized them, but they were led to a dugout box. The two never exchanged a word, never even a glance, and that fit neatly into the legend: everyone knew that years ago Mrs. Babe Ruth and Mrs. Lou Gehrig had had a feud which split their husbands' friendship. And, the old story continued, it wasn't healed until 1939 when Ruth, in an open-necked shirt and blindingly white double...
...some students. "It is a foolish policy," says Benjamin Geva, a second-year law student who had to cough up the $240. "Students should be encouraged to take this course, but for many people, the cross-registration fee can be the straw that breaks the back of the camel," he adds...
Perhaps the only statement on which CHUL will definitely agree today is the old saw that the camel was a horse designed by a committee...
...Nixon Eisenhower, describing her first stab at photography during a twelve-day visit to China earlier this month. "I'm not a professional photographer, just a tourist," cautioned Julie, who still managed to click off 288 vacation snaps, including some respectable photos of Husband David atop a stone camel at the Ming Tombs. Lest Julie's amateur shutterbugging go awry, Chinese photographers accompanied the couple and presented them with a record of their trip. One other gift was included-a surprise 63rd birthday cake for Dad from the Shanghai Revolution ary Committee. "It said 'Happy Birthday...
There is reason, other than art, for these fates. If a camel is a horse designed by a committee, then soaps are contrived in a public meeting?writers, producers and the public all pitching in. At a hint of disapproval from the audience, the snappiest soap plot can collapse...