Word: mull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night, news of the slaughter reached the district headquarters some 40 miles away. Police Chief Prakash Chander Mull rounded up his deputies, 250 well-armed cops, and a magistrate (the only official with authority to give the order to fire on a crowd), loaded them into trucks and headed for Mokhimpur. Taking cover in the cane fields, they fixed bayonets and prepared to charge the still-singing villagers. Suddenly the dancing stopped, a shot rang out from the village, the police answered with another, and Sadhu Raghubaranand fell to the ground, his shoulder grazed. Frightened and screaming, the villagers...
...startled succession, come the country doctor, a passing tramp, and the resident painter (John Forsythe), who calmly sits down and makes a sketch of the poor stiff. "Next thing you know," the captain splutters indignantly, "they'll be televising the whole thing." He and the painter fellow mull things over, decide to dig the hole for Harry together, and-after tea-they...
Boom on the Clyde. Industrial production is at an alltime high, up 10% in the past two years alone. From John o'Groat's to the Mull of Galloway, unemployment is almost unknown. Glasgow, whose Clyde-side shipyards make it the world's biggest builder of ships, is booming. More important, through energetic promotion Scots have succeeded in diversifying their industry against a new time of trouble; in the past five years, 500 firms have established new factories or made major expansions in Scotland. Where, before, its prosperity was almost wholly dependent on shipyards, foundries and blast...
What is the world's champion advertising cliche? To find out, Frank H. Fayant, an early Lord & Thomas partner whose retirement in 1932 has given him time to mull, skimmed through magazines and newspapers. His prize cliché: the phrase claiming world supremacy. In Tide last week, he listed 52. Among them: "World's most widely used sound-conditioning materials" (Celotex); "World's most personal fountain pen" (Ester-brook); "World's greatest show of guaranteed values for home" (Fruit of the Loom); "World's only vacuum cleaner that cleans four ways at once" (Lewyt); "World...
While it is going down, they mull over their contempt for the lady's dull husband ("He hasn't a scrap of poetry in him"). The lover has just whispered: "Let us make love tonight-as never before," when he notices that the elevator is going "down and down interminably." It does not stop until the Devil ("stylishly dressed in tails that hung on [his] hairy top vertebra as on a rusty nail") opens the grille and leads the lovers into a hellish hotel bedroom. Wine is brought them by a very "stern, very grave" waiter with...