Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exhausted by the brilliant play of the Royal Navy team the previous day and by manifold strength-sapping social obligations, the Rugby Club was unable to summon enough power on Palm Sunday morning to gain the needed win over an admittedly weaker Tiger squad...
...have been teaching us mothers the evil of our abnormal ways in desiring anesthesia with childbirth! Surely we will love the old molar more if, while it is being yanked out, we are permitted to grit the others in full consciousness, and then perhaps hold it tenderly in our palm. Come now, let us have Dentistry Without Fear-and, TIME, please don't soften us with that old propaganda that pain really hurts...
...JOHN F. PALM...
...stuffy, successful pediatrician (Dana Andrews) and his wife-receptionist (Lilli Palmer). Stung by the doctor's smug criticism of his art, the tempestuous painter cuts him down to size by trying-almost successfully-to break up his marriage. In the process, the picture tries-and always fails-to palm off drivel as drollery. Sample: a long, witless sequence in which the artist weeps for some lobsters that are boiled alive for the doctor's dinner...
Marauding Rats. The first week after Chinese New Year Canton steamed under a tropical sun. Then a biting, near freezing rain hit the city. Ricksha boys and sampan coolies sought refuge in dry alleyways where they spent hours culling their tattered palm-frond raincoats for lice. At night they slept on the sidewalks wrapped in dirty burlap bags awaking only to chase away marauding rats which feast in the swill-strewn streets after the city's human population has retired...