Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irritation experiments. Philip Morris, for example, bubbled smoke of different brands of cigarettes through water, then dripped the solution on to a rabbit's eyelids. It claimed Philip Morris smoke produced less irritation. Rivals made more direct tests. They developed smoking machines and eyecups to blow smoke smack against the rabbit's eyelid, claimed they found no measurable differences in brands. To measure the amount of swelling caused by protective fluids rushing into the smoke-filled eyes,* testers even trimmed off the upper lids, weighed the membranous linings, then dried them in an oven, and weighed them again...
...Saigon, after a reporting tour of Indo-China, British Novelist Graham (The End of the Affair) Greene applied for a U.S. visa, ran smack into the clause of the McCarran exclusion act which automatically forbids U.S. entry to any alien who was ever a member of a totalitarian party. Greene's difficulty: during his Oxford days in the early '20s, he joined the Communist Party "as a prank," paid dues for a month before he dropped out, later to become a soul-searching Roman Catholic. In Washington, the State Department turned the Greene case over to the Justice...
Winchell is a member of a minority group, and therefore shouldn't sound off about being the "foremost champion of human rights," when it's his duty to stand up for the minorities. La Baker's persistent invasions of plush society spots smack of a trite proverb: give her enough rope and she'll hang herself! Sugar Ray's threat to withdraw from the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund (unless the situation is cleared up) is detrimental to his reputation as a champion. Is the fund a project for saving thousands of cancer victims...
Those in the gala audience who had also seen Aïda before were a good bet to side with Rudolf Bing on opening night this week. They would not even have to look around for something startling and different: the stunning new sets and costumes were designed to smack them right in the eyes...
What little fun this frail comedy offers comes not from its hard-working principals but from two supporting players: Virginia Field, playing a flip, catty blonde who exchanges hisses with Linda over McNally, and Nestor Paiva as the Mexican owner of a broken-down fishing smack, who takes a gleefully perverse delight in his own misfortunes...