Word: hole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rooming house near the Bowery found Bodenheim, 60, and his third wife, Ruth Fagan, 35, dead in a sleazy furnished room. The poet sprawled on the floor, a paperback copy of Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us propped awkwardly on his chest, covering a .22-cal. bullet hole. On a bed beside him was the barefoot body of his wife, her face cruelly beaten and a deep knife wound in her back. The murderer had locked the door behind him with a padlock. Working on the theory that the murders might have been a crime of passion, police...
...After finishing our shelter, we crawled into our hole in the ice and prepared our sleeping bags. For a comfortable and warm night while sleeping on a block of ice, it's advisable to place as much available insulation as possible between the bag and the ice. I remembered that I had brought along an issue of TIME, and the captain suggested that we use it, page by page, spread out beneath our sleeping bags. I didn't like this idea because I hadn't finished reading the entire copy. We compromised by using the pages that...
...bare body twitched, then slowly, very slowly, crumpled and fell to the floor. There was a tiny black hole in her temple...
Hollow in Huntington. Among the most revealing was The Painter of the Hole, I, a nihilistic idyl done in 1948. It suggests that Grosz, who at 60 lives a quiet, suburban life in Huntington, N.Y., is still obsessed with despair. A hollow man sits in a Waste Land landscape daubing at a canvas on which is painted nothing but a big hole. Rats, which to Grosz represents man's conscience "always gnawing at him for the deed he did not do," chew at the easel. This painter once believed in something, explains Grosz, but now he paints only...
...Sicily, half a dozen other companies are also active. Britain's Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. has already spent $500,000 on a test hole near Ragusa. Mediterranean Oil (Gulf and MacMillan Petroleum Corp.), Pacific Western Oil Corp., Montecatini and others have all bought extensive leases (now upped to a 16% royalty) from the government and are searching for oil. So far, 2,400,000 acres have been leased, almost 40% of Sicily's land, and Sicilians are waiting for the first gushers...