Word: gush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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nonsensical gush on an egotistical faker . . . TIME is becoming a pain in the neck...
...experimental XF2-YI Sea Dart (TIME, Feb. 16, 1953) across San Diego Bay on its retractable "hydro-skis." The jet seaplane took off, circled the bay, screamed in for a 400-m.p.h. pass at the shore. Suddenly, 300 ft. above the water, the Sea Dart fell apart in a gush of flame and a shower of metal fragments. Pilot Richbourg lived only two minutes after rescuers pulled him from...
...born and raised in the Snake River country, the scene of his story. He describes his hunters' comfortless lives with an intimacy of detail that makes fine reading even of such simple events as pitching camp or building a fire. Author Lott spares the reader nothing-every gush of blood from a stricken buffalo's mouth, the way a carcass explodes in the sun "with a great pop and sigh," the mechanical difficulties of skinning an Indian. This is no mere western yarn, and there are no heroics about Lett's hunters: Charley kills because he finds...
...chief responsibility for securing fair and impartial trials cannot be shifted to the press. It must of necessity rest upon the members of the bar and other officers of the court. More than 20 years ago a writer on the subject said: 'Except for the slush and gush of the sob artists, there is very little offense chargeable against the press in which it is not led or abetted by lawyers, judges and other public officers...
Pushed by a gush of oil money and promises of more, scientists attacked these problems from half a dozen directions. They hung steel piles studded with strain gauges from offshore drilling platforms and measured the force of passing waves all the way to the bottom. Theoretical physicists figured the size of the waves that hurricane winds would generate in different depths of water, and how high the sea would rise...