Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the 70 years since Author Carlo Collodi of Tuscany invented Pinocchio and told his story in Italian, children all over the world have come to know the long-nosed puppet and his kindly maker, Geppetto. His adventuresfrom the day the old woodcarver hewed him out of a...
The Thing. Philadelphia was in an uproar over the career of a ghostly gunman who was making a practice of sniping at citizens from no one knew where. The winter exercising and drinking season was beginning, with skiers heading for New Hampshire, Sun Valley and Yosemite, the bathing suit and...
Somebody asked cob-nosed Cy Ching whether he thought selective wage controls would work. "I don't know," said Ching, the only words he uttered during the conference.
At the Academy Tunner got adequate grades fairly easily, cut his share of capers. There were frequent poker sessions-"He's the world's worst poker player and crap shooter," says his brother-in-law-and there was one glorious weekend in New York when he met four...
His ugly working-class characters combine good nature, impudence and long-suffering patience with a proper English sense of a citizen's importance. Example: a squat cockney in a cap, a runny-nosed brat dangling from his shoulder, strides past a cluster of bristling generals to inspect a parade...