Word: drier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Such lightweight household equipment as a portable sewing machine half as heavy as present machines; a kitchen step-stool that weighs only two pounds; a clothes-drier rack one-third as heavy as those made of wood; a 16-in. lawnmower that weighs only 25 Ibs. (plus the handle...
...barrel-shaped container which rolled around and around like the Barrel of Laughs at a carnival. Hours later he was taken out, spitting blood but still unable to name a guilty American. The Communists strapped him in a chair under a gadget like a beauty-shop hair drier that shot small electric charges into his skull. He screamed for release and tried desperately to think of an American name-any American name-that might satisfy his torturers, but he could think of none...
...drier aspects of their research, Authors David Clayton and Punch Cartoonist David Langdon learned that some Spaniards call a hangover a clavo (nail), short for "a nail in the head." And one nail, they believe, drives out another...
...vein of compromise, the failure to carry anger" for very long, the tendency to become too clever for wrath, weakens him when he is compared with Swift. Compared with Voltaire's, his imagination is drier, lacks picture and lacks nature too. A kind of middle-class gentility preserved him from the great disgusts, the unspeakable horrors which greater imaginations could grasp. The prose is, however, a superb vehicle for the pamphleteer and any page of it is a model of the art of conducting unfair arguments. He was a highly original artist and the art lay in the transmuting...
...Washington beauty parlor last week a customer under a drier relieved 16 boredom by listening to the Third Man Theme through earphones. In Boston, a dentist drilled away at a patient who was listening to Brahms's popular lullaby In New York City, a plastic surgeon about to operate clapped earphones on the patient, then used his scalpel while the patient listened to the tune, Lovely to Look At In Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, an expectant mother was prepared for delivery of her baby while the strains of Victor Herbert's Toyland came through speakers concealed...