Word: showering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). That's Life, with Betty Grable, Harry James, Johnnie Ray, Larry Storch...
These slight changes had at least three motivations. They provided the peasant with added incentives to work harder on the kolkhoz; they provided Russia with a propaganda vehicle with which to shower the world; and they served to improve the morale of the peasantry. But, unfortunately for Malenkov, the actual production of consumer goods was far short of what the leaders had predicted, producing an economy in Russia which is almost inflationary...
Celaperm Dangerating. "Planning to give people presents? Why not a phono-rama for the family, a cholly boss for the kids . . .? Wear-with-all lipstick makes a cheap gift for the wife. Why not write her a check for the handsome celaperm acetate taffeta shower curtain with the elegant lurex stripe...
...book so as to obscure me. I have often wondered about her behavior." Dame Edith chimed in coolly: "I have often mused that the lady suspected you, Osbert, of having nefarious motives." Bullish Tenor Mario Lanza, who recently played a real-life role (on the Chrysler Corp.-sponsored Shower of Stars, CBS-TV) as a singer so weakened by dieting that his recorded voice had to be dubbed in for his own (TIME, Oct. 11), landed a rather controversial movie role...
...condition. He can draw a third-person self-portrait as accurately as a brilliant cartoonist or observant cop: "He's five foot six and a half. Thick blubber lips; snub nose; curly mouse-brown hair; one front tooth broken . . . speaks rather fancy; truculent; plausible ; a bit of a shower-off; plus fours and no breakfast, you know ... a bombastic adolescent provincial bohemian with a thick-knotted artist's tie made out of his sister's scarf-she never knew where it had gone ... a gabbing, ambitious, mock-tough, pretentious young man; and moley...