Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweating blood!" "It's a miracle," screamed an old woman, "we'll have our saint." Rumors continued to flash through the dark like scratched matches: Maria was dying, she felt neither burns nor pinpricks, she was dead but her heart continued miraculously to beat. Passionately one girl in the crowd implored: "Let's hope her heartbeats stop soon...
...called one of the three top authorities on modern Hebrew. After an all-night session with three assistants in his Tel Aviv flat, Shertok came to the last paragraph, which contained the phrase "Rock of Israel." He started to translate it that way, but met an objection from the girl at the typewriter. Ruth Goldschmidt, an English-born Israeli who heads the official government news agency, said Rock of Israel would mean nothing to non-Jews. She suggested that the phrase "Almighty God" be used. The weary Shertok demurred, for fear of offending the United Workers Party. Miss Goldschmidt, however...
...Filth. Through the super-secret hocus-pocus common to all police states, an old friend put me in touch with a member of the Paraguayan underground, an attractive girl of about 28. "Lola" (that is not her name) is a member of the Movimiento Revoludonario Febrerista, a militant, left-wing organization corresponding to Peru's APRA...
...final show, the audiences saw Up in Central Park, with several members of its Broadway cast. The big favorites, however, are such sentimental standbys as The Great Waltz, Show Boat and Babes in Toyland. The directors usually bypass Broadway hits like One Touch of Venus or Bloomer Girl, considering them too gamy for the family trade...
...conservative sponsors settle for sudsy little dramas. Prell shampoo peeps inside the U.S. bedroom to find a wife chiding her husband because his broad shoulders are sprinkled with dandruff. Camel presents vignettes in which someone, usually a pretty girl, battles a sailfish or performs involved dives from the high board. Then, by a process known as Sponsor's Logic, she ties up her athletic skill with her preference for Camels...