Word: roving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both sexy and funny. Nowadays they insist on being so-called complete women-healthy and natural. The new crop of actresses is dedicated to the proposition that the girl next door can also be sexy. They want to keep one eye on the baby and let the other eye rove...
...title story opens with a "baby" lying in bed. He is 19 years old, and so fat that he has "groups of toes like uncooked sausages." Baby lives with his neurotic Mom; they rove from city to city, endlessly drowning their despondency in capsules of phenobarbital. The Sleep describes how Baby takes a brief waddle down Broadway, stumbles half-comatose into an automobile, weaves back home unscathed, and collapses into the miseries of natural sleep (he dreams that a fat gypsy squaw castrates him with a silver-bladed bread knife). Finally, he swallows the magic "pheeny" that returns...
...sense of suppressed violence. Cops and soldiers with planted bayonets guard hotel entrances. Armored cars bristle before public buildings and jeep-mounted recoilless 106-mm. guns glower down the broad avenues, presumably on guard against the "corruption" and "imperialist aggressors" the Baghdad radio so ceaselessly attacks. Barefoot young people rove the banks of the Tigris, singing patriotic songs and shouting: "Nasser, Nasser." Every wall and shopwindow in town bears the image of the idol of the Nile-or that of Iraq's own Revolutionary Chief Karim Kassem...
...attendance is up by at least 30%. In London's West End, 42 playhouses are running full blast; 100 repertory companies are operating in principal cities; 40 touring companies play one-night to two-week stands in the provinces, and 50 touring revues and dozens of variety bills rove the nation...
...equipment. Each day General Peng runs his troops through stern drills with dummy guns, tanks and jeeps, subjects them to political orientation lectures as intense as those practiced by the Communists, though with a far different message. There have been few desertions to the Communist Viet Minh forces which rove nearby, and the army has maintained good relations with the surrounding French and Indo-Chinese. The community includes about 100 unmarried women and, reported the French in tones of marvel, not one pregnancy has occurred. "They are very puritanical," said a French officer...