Word: soots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dust-hung over the agony of Budapest. From the heights of Buda, Red Army soldiers occasionally saw the spires of a cathedral swim out of the cloud's dark folds, stand in the clear for a few moments, disappear again. For miles around, the snow was black with soot from the cloud. In the heart of the town a grim struggle raged through the days & nights, block by block, brick by brick. As the battle neared its 15th day, the Russians had won more than 1,900 of the 4,500 blocks of buildings in the city. Landmarks...
...Water. In Bournemouth, England, Mrs. Dorothy Banner cleaned her chimney, found wriggling in the soot alive, 10-in. golden carp...
...been in any disaster. What did I do? Well, the first thing I did was to look into the air, and I noticed it was full of bits of tiles and glass and bricks so I dived again. There was dirt everywhere and a horrible smell like soot-maybe it was the explosive, but it smelled like rotten soot. And then, a long time later, the clatter of falling things...
...others like Ken Hinman spent part of the weekend brushing the soot off out at the ballpark. Ken recommends this Sunday afternoon diversion to anyone who likes some relaxation short of breaking that distinction tension...
William Bendix is a likable and sincere actor, but his natural good temper shines fatally through his industrious soot-&-greasepaint toughness. Susan Hayward, as the girl who drives him crazy, is much tougher, too coarsely so for the size of the girl's penthouse or the height of her social standing, but she is more convincing. She is, in fact, Hollywood's ablest bitch-player...