Word: flushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four rounds, it was the younger Basilio who first showed signs of wear. His strength was ebbing; in close, Robby tied him up with ease. When Basilio stood off and tried to box, stinging jabs thrust him off balance. Then a vicious uppercut landed flush on his left eye. Within seconds it swelled shut. Basilio was lost behind that ugly, blue-black eight ball for the rest of the fight...
High on the Hog. Taking over as chairman of the C. & O., he cashed in on the war-brought prosperity of the railroads. Flush with millions, he began the bitter attacks on the railroad industry that marked his stormy career from then on, launched a publicity campaign whose high point was the famous newspaper ad that said: "A hog can cross the country without changing trains-but you can't." He lashed out fiercely at "goddam bankers" (his favorite phrase) for their control of the railroads, set himself up as the champion of the people in a crusade...
...jets." To fly into the jet age ahead of the West, Aeroflot adapted Designer Andrei Tupolev's twin-jet Badger medium-range bombers to regular commercial service. The TU-104 looks like a Victorian Pullman car with ornate chandeliers, overstuffed seats, brass serving trays and old-time chain-flush toilets. But overnight it has changed Aeroflot from a lowly regarded, primarily domestic line into a major international threat. Aeroflot has about 50 TU-104s, flies them regularly to East Berlin, Prague, Sofia and distant cities within the U.S.S.R., cuts the eight-day Moscow-to-Peking rail trip to just...
...stories are far more effective, and they vibrate with the fragile melancholy of tinkling temple bells. A Hindu youth claims his veiled bride, and in the first flush of passion feels a hot tear on his hand as the girl trembles beside him, fearful and liquid-eyed as a doe he once killed. A simple, doting peasant couple lose their only son to the mysterious war of the white men's raj and begin to lose their health, sanity and land as well. Then they are told to apply for equally mysterious pension checks, thus making their...
...back page was a deft cartoon by Staffer Richard Q. Yardley showing the taxpayer apprehensively brushing his teeth while Tax Collector Tommy hovered outside his bathroom. D'Alesandro got the picture. "They'll say Tommy's charging them five cents every time they flush the John!" he bellowed in dismay...