Word: opener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pause that Refreshes. The fair's most satisfying feature, everyone agreed, was the "Gastronomic Village," a broad enclosure with seats for 4,000 people at long tables which were piled high with roast chickens, rolls, and flasks of Chianti. In an open-air kitchen, three cauldrons five feet tall steamed with a never-ending supply of spaghetti. Enthusiastic eaters hacked their way through mountains of food at 450 lire (75?) a meal. After lunch, many stretched out under the shady trees, took off their shoes, spread a copy of Unita over their eyes, and slept...
...dared show his radical variations on the human form before 1945, although for 16 years he plugged away at them in the privacy of his Venice studio, smoothing their voluptuous plaster curves with wire brushes. At the end of World War II, he brought his work out into the open for the first time, won recognition at the big Venice Biennial show last year...
...frock coat who quoted Latin and Greek and had once played championship chess. At night, his busy wife would read aloud to him (he was nearly blind); but his greatest delights were the family singing about the piano, or talking at the table. His big dictionary was always open; no conversation could go on for long without some Clapp having to look up something...
Even among artificial aids for insemination by the husband, Dr. Bacala drew sharp distinctions. Obtaining semen by masturbation or prostatic massage could not be countenanced, he thought. The use of aspiration or testicular puncture was not acceptable. "The only way which presently seems open is that of postcoital artificial insemination between spouses . . . What medical science does [in such cases] is to further pump or inject the semen, coitally deposited, right into the external os, into the cervical canal, hoping that the teeming millions of injected spermatozoa may swim their way up ... to meet an ovum.. This method, utilized...
...Veins. Belowstairs, Albert, the 'prentice footman, is sick with love for-Housemaid Edie, who is herself pining for First Footman Charley Raunce. "I love 'im, I love 'im," she cries to Housemaid Kate (who is obsessed by the mere idea of being in love). "I could open the veins of my right arm for that man." But Footman Charley is momentarily too busy to take Edie seriously. He is hovering outside the dying butler's bedroom, waiting for the brief coma between life and death when he can safely order young Albert...