Word: chews
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During World War II he picked up a "nose flute," used by South Pacific islanders who like to make music and chew betel nut at the same time. He was recently heard to play Abdul, the Bulbul Ameer on this odd instrument. At nights aboard the Helena, Pride's staff gathers in the wardroom for informal musical sessions, with the ship's paymaster banging out tunes on the spinet in the key of C (which is the only one he knows) while other musical officers toot away on harmonicas...
LESTER GRADY Palmerton, Pa. ¶ The bull did not die; he just paused to chew...
...track for vehicles. Present steel-tank treads chew up paved roads...
...Better & Better." Later, in Paris, young Ho Chi Minh worked as a photographer's assistant in a dead-end street behind Montmartre, and peddled enlargements ("Living Souvenirs of Your Friends and Relatives"). Each morning he would cook rice in his bare hotel room and at noon would chew half a sausage, or a fish; each evening, a picturesque and mannerly Asian intellectual, he had access to the clubs. With scholars, artists and future Cabinet ministers, Ho would contemplate and debate astronomy and hypnotism; he argued against Couéism ("Every day in every way I'm getting better...
Last week a 'Cliffe administration ruling imposed tight "Harvard-like restrictions on all 'Cliffedwellers in examinations. But the Annex Student Council has reacted to the order and issued an ultimatum to Dean of Residence Emily Lacey. It demands that 'Cliffedwellers continue to be allowed to "chew gum and suck lollipops" in examinations...