Word: pinup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good research professor in Russia can earn around $36,000 a year, with a number of interesting fringe benefits such as chauffeured limousines, free hospitalization and summer villas. Their income tax is low, too. Furthermore, scientists are more or less the pinup boys of the Soviet Union. Is it any wonder that a Russian high school boy, unlike our own kids, thinks science is a likely profession...
...appeared on TV six years ago, agile Coloratura Munsel, 32, took one look at herself in the monitor and decided: "I televise like a plate of worms." Last week Patrice came back with her own show looking more like a dish for the gods. The Metropolitan Opera's pinup girl has always cut a lissome figure, and her voice fills with rills and lusty high Fs; away from the mustiness of the Met, on TV she is freer to indulge her self-confessed "innate ham" with quick changes and buoyant tunes. The first Met diva to have...
...assets of the international union by $9,000,000 since he became president." In an analytic mood, an old Beck associate says: "When Dave talks about money, it's like some other guy talking about a beautiful broad -he gets a gleam in his eye. The only pinup in Beck's mind is that good green stuff with numbers...
Origin of Specious. In London, in the name of the staid Lord's Day Observance Society, hoaxers sent out calendars with pictures of sketchily clad young women and a verse under the January pinup...
...their respects to the classics by classifying dugongs in the order Sirenia. In a well-meaning gesture, Dr. Harry and his colleagues named Eugenie for the world's most comely ichthyologist: Dr. Eugenie (Lady with a Spear} Clark. Yet on closer inspection, the dugong is no pinup ,girl. Both male and female dugongs have sharp, coarse whiskers and give off what is delicately described as "a strong, distinct, aromatic dugong odor." Clams & Cucumbers. The dugong shows signs of becoming extinct. Hundreds were slaughtered in the 18705 after an Australian firm offered $9 a gallon for dugong oil; many...