Word: dozes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fringe of nowhere in the heart of South America, the Paraguayan town of Pedro Juan Caballero and the Brazilian town of Ponta Porã doze in the green, rolling forests of the Amambay plateau. A broad, straight strip of grass between the red-roofed towns marks the international border. But they really form a single frontier community of bearded, mud-stained Gauchos, Syrian merchants, Redemptorist priests, barefoot women, and soldiers in faded green uniforms...
...coalition (his own Liberals and Mamoru Shigemitsu's Progressives) easily musters a majority, a fact which drives his Socialist opposition into foaming rages. At lunch one day last week, Yoshida had more than his usual two Martinis. Afterward in the Diet, the sleepy-lidded Prime Minister appeared to doze. "Aha!" cried a Socialist. "We work all night on important legislation and the Prime Minister gets drunk and passes out in the Diet...
...part in the future world, but with certain improvements. It is interplanetary, in full color, and does not employ any cameras. Called tridco, it is one of the chief entertainments on the future earth. "They might be on this dull old planet for years. . . . It was much pleasanter to doze in the rays of Jupiter and dream of home. Leatrice missed the tridi, the plays, the bright talk and the glitter, the dances and the weekends in New York...
...basketball giant cannot be passed over he can be passed under, and Goose Tatum, who at one point, standing flat on his feet, wiggles so disconcertingly that an opponent stumbles and almost falls down. Best shot: Haynes, after dribbling right around the entire opposing five while his own teammates doze on the floor, passes to the reclining Tatum, who looks up superciliously from a comic book he is reading, picks the ball out of the air with one hand and flips it into the basket...
...with his demands for 100% party loyalty, was not present. Many Southern bigwigs stayed South. Senate Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who does not often consult noncongressional Democratic leaders, was in Texas. At the big dinner, Averell Harriman had a seat out in left field, while Estes Kefauver appeared to doze through much of the speechmaking. Neither of these presidential aspirants of 1952 attracted much attention. Harry Truman was there but by no means in charge...