Word: flicks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every time the vicious young bull charged, the tall, blonde girl from Texas spun him past her high-waisted Andalusian pants with a flick of the crimson muleta. When finally she leaned over the bull's lowered horns and killed him, the crowd at the Ciudad Juárez ring went crazy over Pat McCormick, the U.S.'s first professional woman bullfighter. As she paraded around the arena with the bull's two ears that the admiring judge had awarded her, a fan called: "If you could only cook...
Draftsman's Apprentice. In Birdham, England, Alan Tamplin, inventor of a 54-gallon, radio-controlled beer barrel (at the flick of a dial it rolls out of the house and across the lawn to where the operator is sitting, fills his glass, returns to the house), permitted a friend to operate the barrel, suffered a crushed toe when the barrel rolled out of control...
...will eat them for breakfast." The colons and the troops see the fellagha signaling at night, with flashlights from the tops of hills. "The flick of a burnoose, the beating of a donkey may mean something-who knows?" Desparnets says. "All a fellagh has to do is drop his gun, and zut, he becomes a plain Arab named Mohammed. It's not hard for them." The fellagha never attack unless certain of victory. In combat with anything like equal numbers, they leave four men behind as a suicide force to protect their fleeing leader...
...years' time, the gadget-laden U.S. householder will be able to do almost everything but change the baby with the flick of a switch. So predicted General Electric's Vice President W. V. O'Brien last week. Electronic devices will thaw frozen foods, cook them in a matter of minutes or seconds; electric incinerators will burn up the waste. Heat pumps (for both heating and cooling homes) will mushroom from the few thousand now in use to 500,000. There will be television screens that hang like pictures on the wall, connected to the set only...
...Business School Field was a quagmire, the afternoon's steady downpour had become a torrent and Dartmouth led 7 to 6 when center midfielder Tim Anderson drove a flick shot on an an assist from Ed Curtis past the Indian goalie to tie matters at 1:31. On the face-off following the goal Anderson took the ball, drove his way around three defenders, and tossed to Monk Aiello who made...