Word: prickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dancing girls. While swallows dart freely above him. King Norodom will often play the saxophone, or conduct his own personal orchestra. He also writes movie scripts and produces them, occasionally playing the lead himself. Once he was great as a mad scientist, turning human victims into zombies at the prick of his devil's needle. "If I ever lose this king job," he remarked, "then maybe I can go to Hollywood. They like Oriental characters over there, don't they? Maybe I could be a Cambodian Charlie Chan...
...romance. It is the kind of story where mood is action: each fall of spirits is barometered, each falling flower microscoped. Hovering on the story's edges is a terrifyingly bright child who wants to make a man out of her weakling father and closes in, occasionally, to prick the balloon-souls of her elders. In the end, after the hot letters have rekindled an ashen marriage and warmed the cool young beauty, Author Bowen unconvincingly produces a handsome American deus ex machina-the machina in this case being a plane that carries him abruptly from Colorado to Shannon...
...room. The geography books once described east Texas as a land of cotton, west Texas as beef country. Today the books are out of date. Cotton was wearing out east Texas land. Today it is prime cattle-grazing country and west Texas is cotton country. East & west, oil derricks prick the Texas sky and a 50-year-old boom goes...
From the canteen we went to the last blood pressure and medical history department. The nurse in charge there was harried. "Very busy day," she said, "must have had over 400--blood pressure normal--every time I've started to do anything--let me prick your finger to see if you've got enough iron--I've had interruptions--been sick in the past month?--well the day is nearly over. Go drink some water and sit down in that line...
...North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Jacob Malik faced a microphone on the U.N.'s Price of Peace program. His text clanked along on familiar Communist lines until, at the end of the broadcast, came the words that caused the world to prick up its ears: Russia was proposing a Korea armistice. Did it mean that the Communists had had enough...