Word: laden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anyone can rent similar facilities from the Bell Telephone Co. Neighborhood theaters use them to give showing schedules, brokerage houses for stock quotations. Currently, one of the most successful installations is in Chicago. Anyone who dials BRoadway 5-0707 is greeted by a honey-laden female voice. "Hello, darling, I'm so glad you called," it trills, then invites the listener to meet her that night for a drink at Irv Benjamin's restaurant. Using only word-of-mouth advertising, Irv Benjamin gets 183,000 calls a month, and even with ten machines, the line is almost always...
...three years of publication, the Democratic Digest has served mostly as a canape tray laden with fancily garnished political tidbits. Adlai Stevenson's egghead followers thought it had the flavor of real caviar. But most ordinary folks considered it just plain fish eggs-and rancid at that. Result: the Digest lost $200,000 in struggling toward a monthly circulation...
...also smell its prey without breathing. When the snake's forked tongue flicks in and out, it conveys odor-laden air to smell organs inside the mouth. After the snake has sunk its fangs in a small, warm animal, it does not try to hold it. The animal runs a few feet or yards until the poison brings it down. Then the snake follows by scent, flicking its delicate tongue, and starts the slow business of swallowing the meal. The injected venom contains a substance that starts the digestive process before the animal reaches the snake's stomach...
...gratitude, the holy man put his blessing on the prince's family for seven generations, one for each loaf. In the years that followed the prince's descendants, the Ni-zams of the princely state of Hyderabad, became the richest lords of all, in an India laden with rich potentates. Even the humbler men who declared India an independent republic in 1950 were loth to impose their democratic ways too swiftly on the 562 potentates who ruled their nation's princely states in unmatched autocratic panoply...
...evening's ballet was Romeo and Juliet, danced in settings of overwhelming -if old-fashioned-grandeur and verisimilitude. The dancing, to the Prokofiev score and with few differences from the ballet film now showing in the U.S.. was heavily larded with emotion-laden pantomime. But fragile Ballerina Galina Ulanova danced lightly as a wind-wafted feather in spite of her 46 years. Most critics were ecstatic. The Times critic described her as "now like a flame on the ground, now like a flame leaping in the air." Wrote the News Chronicle: "Her arms and hands raised in flight...