Word: slices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every major scene is full of suspense and excitement, even over trifles which can be attributed to virtuosity in drawing character and planning situation, rather than skill in surface texture. Scenes, like the one in a night club where Mathieu and the narcissistic Russian girl whom he loves each slice open their left hand as a mutual sign of defiance of respectability, are convincing and indicative in themselves, and at the same time advance the story. But through it all, there is something unhealthy, embodied perhaps in Sartre's preoccupation with, and caressing descriptions of, the physical act of vomiting...
...Dallas, one blistering afternoon last week, a wilted and red-faced businessman walked into Little Brother Runnells' outdoor watermelon garden and sank down on a chair. He ordered a slice of cold watermelon and stared at it with a kind of torpid cunning. He made it last a long time. He built a juicy suspension bridge by excavating delicately at the center of the slice, then wrecked it slowly, sadly, and with infinite care. He counted the black seeds on his plate before he dragged himself back to the unthinkable horrors of his desk, his telephone and his electric...
Erich knew that some of the bigger boys at school had their own ways of getting bread. They sold it-ten marks for a slice. Usually Erich was unable to pay, but by arguing and promising he got bread on credit. Over a period of weeks, he put himself 160 marks in debt-more than the price of a pack of American cigarets. He thought that he would be able to pay up when he had sold enough of his treasures...
...expanded into the New York market merely by handing a slice of Pepperidge bread to the head of a Manhattan grocery store. The manager said he hadn't tasted any bread like it since he was a boy. Within a short time he was ordering 1,200 loaves a week...
Businessman. Bugsy went right to work. He moved in on the gambling at Redondo Beach, took a cut of the profits at the Agua Caliente race track, muscled in on the numbers racket, cut himself a slice of the offshore gambling fleet and the Culver City dog track...