Word: clamming
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...months-long fit of timorousness, the State Department has acquired the unpleasant habit of locking up educators, visiting scholars, and students on Ellis Island. And as if the incessant lock-ups are not enough, State meets requests for information with all the loquacity of a laryngitic clam. Those within Ellis Island stockades have not the slightest idea of their supposed misdemeanors, and those in American trying to help are kept equally ignorant...
...Baby (Frank Sinatra; Columbia). Crooner Sinatra, who has been in need of a hit record for years, turns up in a socko mood that might turn the trick, "dim clam cleanup the rim ram room," shouts Frankie, " 'cause your bim bam baby's comin' home tonight...
...more mature trade, Goldstein has turned out such pictures as The Egg and I and numerous westerns. But he avoids sophisticated comedy. Once, turning down a script, he explained to Writer Don McGuire: "Don, you dig whimsy. I dig whimsy. But does the public dig whimsy? Not with a clam shovel...
...complacent observer of high taxes points out that all the money somehow comes back to the people. A fresh-water clam in the well-balanced home aquarium pumps through his voracious valves nine gallons of water a day, yet the fish around it do not starve. Rather, the tank is purified in the redistribution. So the Government pumps it in, and pumps it out for the greatest good of the greatest number. That's the idea...
...invested in productive improvements that can make more of the things that people use. But money that goes to the Government, especially beyond Clark's 25% limit, adds to the demand for products far faster than it creates the means of making more products. The clam in the aquarium is no longer performing a service; he is eating what the fish need...