Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successor, surrealism. When the Germans came in 1940, he took off for Hollywood, where he painted, photographed and lectured. In 1951 he went back to Paris and the Latin Quarter. There he now works, but never more than two hours at a stretch. "I like to work at white heat for short periods," he explains. Painting is his main love, but photography brings in more money. Like a true dadaist, Ray scorns credit for the unquestionable skill of his photographs: "Many photographers consider themselves as artists. In my opinion, 99% credit should...
Well might sensitive Percy act apologetic, ashamed and guilty. He and Edwina seemed perfectly mated, but Percy refused to mate. He was in love with her yet left her unfulfilled. For weeks poor Edwina tried every device in her varied repertoire, but she could not heat the simmering Percy to an honest boil. Edwina iked. Percy brooded. It was an intolerable situation for an Anthropopithecus Hirsutus Africanus, or, in plain English...
...turbine passenger bus, is being road-tested by General Motors Corp., but mass production of the bus is a long way off. Chief advantages of the vehicles: light weight, little vibration, use of a wide range of fuels, and clutchless operation. Drawbacks: high fuel consumption and scarcity of heat-resistant metals needed, such as nickel, cobalt and molybdenum...
Actually, Toriello and his boss seemed to realize that a good deal more than a truce on the banana front was needed to take the heat off. Calling a press conference, the Foreign Minister dealt out reassurances in all directions. No more munitions ships were on the way, he said. "Guatemala does not menace anyone, especially our sister republics. Our army will never serve as an instrument of aggression." The Guatemalans pulled back troops from the Honduran border and offered the astonished Hondurans, who had just recalled their ambassador, a mutual-assistance and nonaggression pact...
...ambitious. Her weakness-a terrifying one for a royal mistress-was that she was "constitutionally incapable of passion." "She tried to work herself up to respond to the King's ardors by every means known to quackery"-diets of vanilla, truffles and celery, "elixirs" guaranteed to "heat the blood." Nobody knows how far she succeeded, but Louis adored her even when he had turned for his pleasure to what Author Mitford solemnly calls "a modest little private brothel, run on humane and practical lines...