Word: pulping
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...like a paving stone) almost a foot thick. In another, he connects with an uppercut and rockets his opponent 30 ft. into the air. In the last reel that nasty old Kobrak turns himself into Goliath's double, and at the climax Gordon beats Gordon to a bloody pulp, rips off his smiling mask, displays the inside of his head. It looks like the inside of a pumpkin...
...loaned $300 million to businessmen around the hemisphere, and at rates of less than 6%. In Peru, a private company recently got a $1,400,000 loan to begin transforming 16,000 desert acres into farmland. Other loans have gone for a synthetic rubber plant in Brazil, a wood pulp mill in Colombia, fruit processing in Argentina, textile mill expansion in Paraguay, and plants to process timber into chip board for construction in Chile and Argentina...
...voice, which at its best moments is trying desperately to attain Southern elegance and always barely missing. Especially striking is her use of it in a scene at the end of the first act. Alone on the stage, she telephones an acquaintance to offer her a subscription to a pulp magazine, and when she speaks the listener mocks her smallness yet nearly weeps that a Southern Lady should rejoice so at finally making the sale. There is another extraordinary scene later, when Amanda tries to entertain Jim O'Connor, the "gentleman-caller," and her empty Southern sweetness is revealed. Miss...
...main reason for the rescue is a new kind of rayon developed by the industry. It is made just like the old fiber -by squeezing wood pulp through a device that looks like a shower head to form filaments-but its molecular structure has been changed through the use of new chemicals in the manufacturing process. Whereas the old rayon shrank in the rain and often broke up in the family washing machine, the new fiber is stronger and shrinkproof, while retaining the absorbent qualities of the old fiber. Nowadays it is usually blended with a cheap grade of cotton...
...women who have latched onto novelists to be part of the cultural whirl; legions of cultural snobs who fear nothing so much as being accused of having no taste; and a few perplexed commoners who actually try to read the book in question. "You expect to bite into juicy pulp," one confesses shamefacedly (and in secret) to a friend, "and you break your teeth on hard metal...