Word: dish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months: He walks alone, seats himself with care. When given a book, he looks at pictures, turns pages two or three at a time. He knows ten words, helps feed himself, hands his empty dish to his mother. Always "on the loose," he runs stiffly, constantly shifts his attention...
...United Producers; RKO Radio). Caroline (Anna Lee) does not possess the studied virtuosity of the S. J. Perelman heroine who left the room in high dudgeon and returned in low dudgeon, just to show her versatility. But she is an exasperatingly contradictory female. Life confounds her. Attention is her dish. Her water-bug mind, attractively camouflaged by a pert, pretty face and curly, blonde topknot, tends to forget people when they aren't around...
...crowd this was just grace before meat. Their dish was excitement. Would there be any smashups? Two of the cars that had qualified in test runs had already been wrecked: one the day before, in a last-minute tune-up; another only a few hours earlier, when a fire burned down a row of garages on the edge of the speedway. Would anyone break the record of 117.2 m.p.h.? Could Wilbur Shaw win the 500 for the third year in a row? It had never been done...
Each Sunday morning, to more than a third of Britain's eleven million homes, goes a juicy dish of the week's doings in divorce, scandal, abduction, assault, murder and sport. It is the News of the World, world's largest paper (circulation: over...
...morning, the Yardling Smoker Committeemen stood out clearly as peers of their trade. Old grads, blase upperclassmen and burly Yard cops burbled in unison that this year's Smoker was tops for all time. Entertainment--loud, raucous, spicy entertainment--was the bill of fare, and avid Freshmen gobbled their dish in glee. The Jones Brothers cleared the way for the evening's queens with a knowing, "now we understand each other, gentlemen." Although stripped of her bubbles and feathers. Sally Rand uncorked with deft grace the long suppressed libidos of exam-plagued undergraduates. Yvette proved to be the program...