Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiny smudge of lipstick, spotted by the eagle eye of an Associated Pressman and duly reported by cable and radio last week, was an all's-well signal that spread to the four corners of the earth. Such, anyway, was the impression created by frontpage stories recounting the reunion of Queen Elizabeth and her husband in Portugal after his return from a four-month cruise through the Commonwealth. No less than 150 eager pressmen elbowed one another aside on the tarmac at Lisbon's Montijo Military Air Base as the Queen's gleaming Viscount transport headed...
...will easily establish a pressure equal to that of the water at his depth. But if he holds his breath while descending, he creates a low-pressure pocket in his lungs: his blood is at a higher pressure, and blood vessels (especially in the lungs, but also in the eye socket and ears) may burst. This will cause the spitting of frothy blood-an alarming symptom, but in this case not likely to be fatal...
These averages are derived by the prescribed ICC Uniform System of Accounts, which Ladd accused of "retarding the development of good management cost data." One ICC account combines water cooler ice, car cleaners' wages, detouring costs, and eye and ear tests for trainmen into one figure...
...Valhalla, Sally's fancy restaurant in Sausalito, Bridges was caught in the men's room last September by two seamen, both unfriendly members of the Sailors Union of the Pacific. They worked him over, choked him with his necktie, kicked him, groined him, blackened his eye. Sally sallied into the men's room, got her ankles booted for her solicitude. Now they were together again for the trial of the two sailors, whose plea was not guilty. Sally stuck by her original contention: "We sure as hell didn't start...
...lady is pregnant. But what is this dark drive that possesses her? With somnambulistic stare she crosses to the kitchen counter. She reaches for a knife-and then for the bread and peanut butter. She raises the sandwich to her mouth, hesitates. A gleam of madness flickers in her eye. She takes out an onion...