Word: overing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detroit's Charles Langs, who invented a stick-on, strapless bra named "Poses," but came a cropper when he tried to market it (TIME, Aug. 29), sold out to Textron Inc. The price: $70,000 in cash and the prospect of more in royalties. With the bright merchandising idea...
The movie's most spectacular moments are provided by a running noose-and-lariat battle between an enraged rhinoceros and members of the expedition mounted in a truck. At one point the rhino gets the upper hand; charging the truck, he topples it over on its side as if...
Butler Charley is an ambitious rogue with a bad conscience, a double man who is torn between his desire to make hay while the sun shines in neutral Eire and his realization that his manly pride depends on his returning to embattled Britain. Similarly, he is the sort of a...
"It was a place from which light was almost excluded now by cobwebs across its two windows and into which, with the door ajar, the shafted sun lay in a lengthened arch of blazing sovereigns. Over a corn bin on which he had packed last autumn's ferns lay...
No Offense. In Warren, Ohio, John Markovich, who had made a shambles of the Veterans Administration office by scattering files over the floor, overturning desks and breaking up anything he could lay hand to, explained sheepishly as he was being led away: "I thought I was in the income-tax...