Word: peeled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage of human affairs." His stage was the toughest strip of the Sydney waterfront. He organized a wharf laborers' union. Hobo life had given him chronic dyspepsia and affected his hearing, but he discovered a powerful voice, tuneless, yet penetrating enough, as he himself said, "to peel the bark off a gum tree," or "galvanize ten dead bullocks to a trot." A gnomelike figure (5 ft. tall, under 100 lbs.), among the muscular wharf lumpers he was said to be "too deaf to listen to reason, too loud to be ignored, and too small to hit." He was soon...
...Sieve calls his pills phosphorylated hesperidin. Plain hesperidin, known for years, is related to so-called vitamin P. These preparations have been tried with indifferent results in a variety of ailments, from kidney disorders and psoriasis to radiation sickness. Hesperidin comes from orange peel and could be made about as cheaply as aspirin in mass production...
Aboard the Queen Mary, bound for England and a summer of television work, Actress Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) refused to give photographers a cheesecake pose, instead favored them with a winning smile and a ladylike version of the traditional ship's-rail picture...
...John Peel at the break of day? D'ye ken John Peel when...
...Britain's rugged Cumberland Hills where Peel's "View Halloo!" wakened the fox from his lair in the early 19th century, a newer type of sport, spurred by austerity, has become the rage: hound trailing, where yelping hounds, without horsemen, follow a man-made spoor over hill & dale. The deep-chested foxhounds are descendants of the hunting packs of Peel's time. But the owners are a different breed altogether. Few of England's pinched aristocracy can any longer afford the luxury of thoroughbred horses, pink coats and the rest of fox hunting's traditional...