Word: doughed
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...come home with a paletteful of ideas. Gone was the eerie wind which had blown through his desolate landscapes, flattening figures to splashes of color enclosed in swift, sketchy lines. Instead, there were harshly patterned compositions with heavily outlined figures, thickly painted limbs that looked like kneaded dough, nubble-knuckled hands and feet...
...Rising dough. She found that she had to sell her bread for 25? a loaf, more than double the amount charged by the large bakeries. But she counted on the Pepperidge taste to carry the Pepperidge price...
...remind his readers that he knows all about everything long before it happens, solemnly reported: "Bugsy Siegel, problem child of the mobs . . . hit Page 1, as expected." He quoted one of his 1941 columns: "Secret of the unlimited cash of Virginia Hill, mystery girl who tossed bales of dough around Miami Beach this winter, is a Chicago bookmaker." The AP, however, gallantly continued to refer to her as an heiress...
Touch artists are not the only ones to see the color of Allen's dough. He refuses to talk about his charities, but close friends estimate that they cost him at least $500 a week. Fred says only: "I was poor once myself." Except when absolutely necessary, he gives no thought to money. He saves his thinking for his work...
...they use far richer ones than "damn." And I did not, in fact, write "damn" but "dam," thus indicating that I accepted a possibly outmoded (1877) but attractive derivation of the phrase "a tinker's dam"-dam being any barrier, and, in particular, the wall of worthless dough "raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with a coat of solder" (see Oxford Dictionary...