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...fashions; e.g., some current phantoms do not bother to represent anything at all but simply join the victim in bed on a dark night, remaining strictly intangible and indefinable. The advance-guard ghosts in this collection include one which appears simply as a spot of green slime and goes "drip, drip, drip" on the sleeper's face, and another which disguises itself as a strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunting Season | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...last week, the second shift had just filed in to start a normal day's work turning out Hydra-Matic transmissions for G.M., Lincoln, Kaiser, Hudson and Nash. Moments later, sparks from a welder's torch ignited an oil-soaked conveyor belt; suddenly flames leapfrogged from one drip pan to another. After that said Foreman Floyd Davis, everything "went up like a torch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Disaster's Bottleneck | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

...industry, protected markets, guaranteed full employment. Recently, Rab Butler's new National Productivity Council tried to persuade union representatives that more and cheaper production is Britain's only hope. The council got nowhere, for union men have long memories of un employment and living on "bread and drip." Said one delegate: "If you ask a Tyneside worker to turn a ship around in two weeks instead of four, he wants to know what you would expect him to do with the other fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A New Outlook | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...discussed such unscientific subjects as pudding eating ("With a spoon . . . begin on the outside, or near the brim of the plate . . . approach the center by regular advances, in order not to demolish too soon the excavation which forms the reservoir for the sauce") and coffee making (he recommended the drip method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Insufferable Genius | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...their brave mixture of patience and humor broke the siege and made fools out of the Communists. But day by day, in the four years since, West Berlin has been living under another kind of Communist siege, encirclement and calculated harassment. Nobody finds himself a hero any more. The drip treatment has left its mark on the once jaunty spirit of West Berliners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Life in the Shade | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

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