Word: copiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps because the disturbed tissues were swollen, the duct at first carried no saliva. But when Dougherty heard and smelled the lunch wagon, the flow was copious. Says Dougherty, a former railroad freight handler who has been unable to work for five years: "My eye watered so much I had to put a towel on my lap. But when the watering stopped, I could see the food." From having been able to distinguish only light from dark, Dougherty developed 20/200 vision-enough for him to travel alone to the hospital last week for a checkup. His vision is expected...
...words. Two children of preschool age were using the living room as a playpen, several times coming dangerously close to extinction from electrical wiring, paperweights, and other threatening objects. The kitchen, its plaster peeling, was too narrow to contain an ironing board and chair; and the bedroom, far from copious, held two beds and a cradle...
...Attack. While Moscow quietly studied the speech (in Red China, but not in Moscow, copious extracts were published), the Polish Stalinists went into the attack. Their leader was former Minister of Communal Economy Kazimierz Mijal, who insisted that there was no such thing as a Polish road to socialism and that to say so was to capitulate to capitalism. Said he : "Why does the party keep discussing the need to fight antisemitism, which does not exist in Poland, and ignore what we must do about the serious problem of anti-Sovietism, which really does exist?" Behind the locked doors...
...bridge beside Coppola stood a newly recruited ex-Kiel Canal pilot, Captain Helmut H. Wilters, taking copious notes. He was one of 50 to 60 volunteers from several countries being rush-trained to replace the departed pilots. Shiaty tutored him meticulously. When the Italian helmsman-changed every hour on account of the strain-just once failed to follow a command, Shiaty called to the mate: "Another helmsman...
Appearance: Over 6 ft., a lanky, handsome man with square, impassive face, copious greying hair, muscular neck and a brusque manner, obviously accustomed to authority. Tallest of the top Soviet leaders, most of whom date from the days when Stalin liked no one to be taller than...