Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic development-which is, after all, neutral-but it should interest itself as well and more profoundly than ever in the political, ideological and cultural problems. It is equally imperative for the highest and deepest in western diplomacy to assert itself in such a way as to close the hole in the ranks of the West on a basis of complete respect for the freedom and independence of the Middle East, and for genuine conditions of justice and equality between the West and the Middle East...
...Truman's term, Adlai had an old pair of shoes with a hole through the half-sole; now, at the end of three years of Ike's term, Adlai has a new pair of shoes with a whole half-sole...
...Star and Garter, his first Broadway smash hit, Cole Porter's Mexican Hayride, Catherine Was Great with Mae West, the G.I. Hamlet with Maurice Evans, and an involuntary bit in court, where he was declared bankrupt. Continuing to live lavishly, Todd said, "I was a million in the hole. What was I supposed to do, cut down on my cigars...
...studying their diet, he decided that their euphoria is due to one of their favorite dishes: big beetles and their larvae, the size of small sausages. A lucky Pygmy may find as many as 100 larvae in a riddled tree trunk. He bakes them with hot stones in a hole in the ground (New England clambake technique), and when he has eaten his fill, he feels as contented as a Hollywood agent tranquilized with Miltown...
...Hole in the Wall. The aorta is the heart's outlet, through which the left ventricle pumps freshly oxygenated blood to the entire body. A weak spot in the wall of Hickey's aorta had ruptured, blowing a hole in the adjoining wall of the right auricle, which draws in used blood from the veins and sends it on its way to the lungs to be oxygenated. Thus a large proportion of the outgoing blood was being short-circuited, clogging the right side of the heart instead of coursing into the arteries. Hickey's heart was laboring...