Word: goos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burly Arthur works hard. Six days a week, 52 weeks a year, he "yaps at a mike" from 6 to 7:45 a.m. over Manhattan's WABC. Five days a week in winter he follows up with "an hour and a half of the same goo" piped to Washington's WTOP. And six days a week, he does an 11 to 11:30 coast-to-coast show over CBS. His weekly total on the air: 21 hours. His weekly income: more than...
...close the flat and join the Women's Royal Naval Service (Wrens). Thus begins their vacation from marriage. It ends some three years later in a transformation which may not strike hardened cinemaddicts as particularly surprising. But the picture holds together nicely, and without the customary Hollywood glue, goo and garnish...
...What? In the U.S., the documentary film has usually been treated like a poor relation. During the war, it was treated like a poor relation who might just possibly have oil in his backyard. And oil was struck-along with a lot of goo...
...lacrosse team has been a poor team. Whose fault is that? The best coach can't make a goo team of ten out of not more than twenty, for the most part novices...
Dropped in loose clusters of 14, or "amiable" clusters of 38, the finless oil-bombs are exploded by a time fuse four or five seconds after landing. Thereupon M-69s become miniature flamethrowers* that hurl cheesecloth socks full of furiously flaming goo for 100 yards. Anything these socks hit is enveloped by clinging, fiery pancakes, each spreading to more than a yard in diameter. Individually, these can be extinguished as easily as a magnesium bomb. But a single oil-bomb cluster produces so many fiery pancakes that the problem for fire fighters, like that of a mother whose child...