Word: puff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Birds froze in mid-air and fell like stones to the ground. At Norwich a young countrywoman started to cross the road in her usual robust health and was seen by the onlookers to turn visibly to powder and be blown in a puff of dust over the roofs. . . . Corpses froze and could not be drawn from the sheets,. .. It was commonly supposed that the great increase of rocks in Derbyshire was due to . . . the solidification of unfortunate wayfarers...
Judge Picard overruled the master. He held that time spent on actual production before the starting whistle should be paid for. This the judge arbitrarily set at seven minutes a man, awarded the workers a total of $2,415.74. This seemed a trifle, no more inportant than the puff of smoke that issued when the bottle was first opened...
Cream Bomb. Last week a 17-year-old high-school student died an agonizing death after eating a tainted cream puff, the kind known here as a creme bomba. That bomb exploded into a riot. Hundreds of fellow students attacked the shop that sold the poisoned cake. Two days later, the outbreak had turned into a citywide protest against profiteering and high prices, a demand for a 50% slash in prices or else. Thousands of cariocas, armed with bricks and clubs, took vengeance on the places they could not afford to patronize. The swank Roxy Theater, showing Mr. Deeds Goes...
...like a ton of marshmallows. He signed on as "Cholly Knickerbocker" of Hearst's New York Journal-American society page, and set his sights high. What he wanted, he said, was syndication-first national, then global. He put out a highly readable, often unbearable column full of cream-puff crises and chichi. Sometimes, to angle it down Hearst's alley, he sternly lectured his readers on why broiled squab and Valentina gowns were Worth Fighting...
...comet collision would be a cream-puff blow compared with an encounter between the earth and an asteroid. These small bodies, believed to be pieces of a planet once located between Mars and Jupiter, have highly eccentric orbits and often shoot close to the earth. In 1937 a small asteroid, Hermes, missed the earth by only 500,000 miles - a bare stone's throw as interplanetary space is reckoned...