Word: lolling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tears. Despite the influx, the vast Amazon has only a sprinkling of people. The League of Nations once reckoned that the basin could support 900 million people, but only a scant 4,000,000 occupy the area, two-thirds of them caboclos, who live in huts, fish and loll in hammocks. Japan is one source of newcomers who seem immune to the easy-living lethargy that strikes native Brazilians and Indians. At Tomé Acu, below Belém, the Japanese have helped to carve out one of the world's biggest pepper plantations. At nearby Guama colony, they...
...Western-attired fashion plate, sped to the airport in Nice, met a beautiful English visitor, Tracy Pelissier, 19, stepdaughter of famed British Moviemaker Sir Carol (Our Man in Havana) Reed. Then they limousined to the Cannes villa of the Aga's father, Prince Aly Khan, where Tracy will loll in the Riviera sunshine and be subjected to the routine flurry of rumors that she will become her handsome host's begum...
...himself out explaining when our favorite 46-oz. can of tomato juice jumped from 19? two years ago to 36? as of today. There's nothing prohibitive about $4 a year for a home-town newspaper. That's about 7½ ? a copy. About half our readers loll around coffee shops swilling from four to twelve cups of 10? coffee every day. They shouldn't squawk about paying the price of one cup of coffee for what we work all week to produce, and to improve their minds with our version of whatinell's happening...
...diet with a single inclusive food (mostly beef-based, cereal-fortified), crusaded for better dog nutrition. They had an irrefutable pitch: dogs that once brought stags to bay need a different diet because they are now slothful city dwellers that ride in taxicabs, get taken to fancy French restaurants, loll around hot apartments watching television...
...master bedrooms, baths where the water flows from gold faucets, and-a special convenience to guests with an urgent sense of privacy -a walled-in parking lot protected from the eyes of reporters who like to look up license numbers. In his own bathroom the gang chief likes to loll in a $10,000 tub carved. from a single piece of Mexican onyx...