Word: clamming
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Never has more mud been pumped, slushed, squirted and squooshed, and I beg to report that the Connecticut clam is far mightier than the slush pump. Needless to say, it will take many years for TIME to regain my confidence after this disappointing experience...
After several years of abounding faith in the authenticity of TIME, I find that I have been duped, taken in, crossed up, and otherwise misled. I read with great interest an article concerning the genus bivalve mollusc, or clam, in your Aug. 20 issue, whereby it would appear some enterprising character named Higgins had revolutionized the time-tested method of clam-digging through the use of a plumber's helper, slush pump, or what have...
...More than a succession of tunes, the music helps interpret the story; it has operatic climaxes, choral fullness, choreographic lilt. But it is still in tunes that Composer Rodger's real magic lies-whether the tender If I Loved You, the light, murmurous This Was a Real Nice Clam Bake, the full-throated sweetness of June Is Bustin' Out All Over. And Hammerstein has caught their spirit with his lyrics...
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's clam-like, bachelor Prime Minister, was asked by Maxime Raymond, leader of Quebec's British-hating Bloc Populaire: how much did Canada have to pay for last September's six-day Quebec (Churchill-Roosevelt) Conference? The to-the-penny answer...
...written a monologue on "Why Princeton Should Be Abolished," which he hopes to have published in the near future, perhaps in the Saturday Review of Literature. Gould reasons along hitherto untried lines: "Princeton was originally the college of New Jersey, and in New Jersey people put tomatoes in their clam chowder." Therefore Princeton should be abolished...