Word: humps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This pig-faced idol of 30,000 trusting Alaouites is sated with life's delights. Huge rolls of fat clutter his chin, hump his neck, swirl around his middle. He has beady, sweaty brown eyes, but, by a quirk of nature, they are spaced nicely apart, giving him an off-center approach to humanness. He lacks all the usual Arab graces, makes up for them in a futile, ostentatious show of wealth. He no longer wears the peasant costume he used when playing the role of latter-day god, appears instead in a dirty white silk suit, two-toned...
...broadcast is just next week and even now the turnout at rehearsals in not all that it should be. If you have been out for the Club at any time in the past, come back out now and get it over the broadcast hump. The group will necessarily require reorganization after the seniors leave, but the more juniors we have the easier that task will...
...Rubber, No. 1 rubber producer, got over the hump on synthetic-rubber production so completely that its six months' earnings of $6,912,000 were more than four times last year's doldrums figure. The one giant that really suffered was U.S. Steel: now falling behind Bethlehem in gross sales (because of Bethlehem's vastly greater shipbuilding operations), Big Steel's earnings for the second quarter nose-dived...
Companionship of Death. In a burned tent about two miles from Massacre, I found eight grotesque little Japanese bodies, clothes burned off, arms reaching outward or upward-where there were arms. Two bodies were burned to crisps, one atop the other, fused into one charred hump...
...team of Lev Allen and Daddy Weems was beaming last week. T.I.S.'s program was well over the hump. Starting next month, they can expand the course to 17 weeks as the need for new officers slackens (TIME, April 26). This week T.I.S. will have its first formal inspection by Lieut. General Lesley McNair, head of the Army Ground Forces. Among the sights: 239 first classmen from West Point, 90 officers of the newly activated 42nd ("Rainbow") Division taking refresher courses...