Word: cooing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With an election ahead, the Tory budget scattered benefits among millions. A Rolls-Royce dealer took a column frontpage ad in the Times to coo: "A wonderful budget." On the stock exchange, share prices went to an alltime high...
...Dove is much too keen To let a single bird be seen; To show the pigeons would not do And so he simply paints the coo...
Sneak Killer. Among other things that Balke & Co. studied was sensitivity to an excess of carbon dioxide in the inhaled air. Odorless and tasteless, COo can be a sneak killer: if something went wrong with his oxygen-recycling system or its indicator, a busy spaceman might not notice it until too late. In the altitude chamber, first Balke and then the airmen mounted an Exercycle. Disguised like Martians in a spirometer (breathing measurement) mask, they pedaled frantically off to nowhere...
Though a millionaire several times over, Picasso lives in the elegant villa like a wandering Okie. A flock of pigeons coo from the third-floor balcony, chickens cluck on the lawn, the goat is kept on the second floor. Significantly the one clear space in the house is around his easel, lit by a powerful electric lamp with triple reflectors, where he paints every day from 4 p.m. until after midnight with an old boxboard for a palette, sometimes knocking off two or three versions of a subject in a single session. Explains Picasso : "I am a Spaniard. Just...
Based on William Marchant's 1955 Broadway comedy about the milder terrors of technological unemployment, Desk Set has been expanded by a sizable pigeonhole, in which Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy intermittently bill and coo. Actress Hepburn is the head researcher for a TV network, the kind of girl who always knows the score but seldom seems to make one-especially with Gig Young, a rising young executive who can't seem to remember he is supposed to be falling for Katie. But then along comes Tracy, a "methods engineer" who seems determined to fire the heroine...