Word: pea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kroyer was called upon to salvage a 2,700-ton steamer that had sunk in Kuwait harbor and could not be raised by conventional pumping. Though he had never raised any vessel bigger than a test tube, Lab-lubber Kroyer had the answer. He shot the hull full of pea-sized, high-flotation, plastic-foam pellets until it bobbed to the surface, pocketed a handsome...
...follows a cat named Tom (Tom Baker) as he prowls bedrooms and hallways in search of birds. There are six in all, including Ingrid Superstar-real name: Ingrid von Schoffen-as a chubby blonde who refers to her overexposed mammaries as "fried eggs," and a brassy type in a pea jacket who turns Tom down because she herself prefers to make it with chicks. Some of the improvised dialogue is four-lettered, most of it unlettered...
...columnists, "I wonder if they would be so lavishly used if they were not dirt cheap; if it was not possible for an editor or a publisher to obtain for a song so much copy of such high respectability?" Many columnists "conceal an idea the size of a pea in a stack of dry straw. Does nobody discipline them? Does nobody make them rewrite or throw a column away? Are they sacred cows that are allowed to wander unmolested through your pages...
...grinning lout is arrested and shipped off to a labor camp for Jews. "But I am not a Jew," he protests. "My son," an old Jew replies gently, "we live in a world where any human being can become a Jew at any moment." That seems to satisfy this pea-brained pollyanna, who is blissfully happy to be a slave and can't understand why his companions aren't. "Look," he implores them, "look what a nice canal we're building...
Sulky Sun. On Dec. 5, 1952, a thick fog began to roll over London. Hardly anyone paid any attention at first in a city long used to "pea-soupers." But this fog was pinned down by a temperature inversion, and was steadily thickened by the soot and smoke of the coal-burning city. Within three days, the air was so black that Londoners could see no more than a yard ahead. Drivers were forced to leave cars and buses to peer closely at street signs to find out where they were. Policemen strapped on respiratory masks. The Manchester Guardian reported...