Word: peeled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Peel with his coat...
...country, talking to the young and causing acute attacks of thought in thousands of college students who scarcely ever thought of thinking before. The majority of U.S. college professors would gladly hand him the bitter chalice; he merely enjoys the situation and sticks to dry Martinis with lemon peel...
...John called in Geoffrey Marshall, 64, an expert on lung diseases, and Sir Robert Arthur Young, 80, grand old man of British chest experts. X rays by Radiologist Peter James Kerley and others showed what seemed to be a growth in the left lung. Australian-born Brigadier Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill, 75, who enjoys the title of Sergeant Surgeon to the King, agreed that an operation was necessary. The doctors decided that another Welshman, Chest Surgeon Clement Price Thomas, was the man to do the surgery...
...minute span of Two on the Aisle, he sweats through 19 costume changes. Aided by his dresser and three assistants, who stand just inside the curtain and peel costumes from him in onion-like layers, he gives a dizzying exhibition of that half-forgotten art, the quick change. He leaves the footlights as Captain Universe, a panicky Superman who wears an aerial on his head, slips out through the curtain again as a clown, dives back to reappear almost instantly as a cross-eyed gaucho, and then-encased in a gown which is snapped around him by a body-hugging...
...gung-gung-gung." And though he remained a loud, low comedian, he labored for the sympathy of the audience and concentrated more & more on perfecting an air of bewilderment and insane incompetence, the eternal fall guy with one foot in his mouth and the other poised over a banana peel...