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Word: godbolt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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...sleeves and put your 'ands into 'em. A little bit soap, a little bit water, everything's gone and forgotten. For dead babies, inform the police." The plot, such as it is, concerns two wars. One is fought between Sam Yudenow and a neighborhood storekeeper named Godbolt from whom he rents his movie theater (formerly a church); Sam hates Godbolt for no better reason than that he cheated him. The other war is fought by Daniel and his ally-a contemptuous cockney handyman-against Sam himself. Anything goes in those battles, from the hurling of dead dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fulsuric Imagination | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

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