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Word: spicing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good songs could have compensated for this dullness, but Top Banana never had any. The film lacks variety, and undoubtedly much of its spice has gone with the censors...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Top Banana | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

...another point, they felt their way along the face of a rock wall, stepping on a 6-in. plank held in place by ancient iron spikes. But eventually the sun came out. Robins flew up from the sycamore branches; the call of the titmouse came clearly from nearby fields. Spice bushes were in bud, and peeping frogs sang in the bog water of the old canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURE: The Woods Walkers | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...Look at Their flag!" Sporting jasmine garlands and his inevitable red rosebud, Nehru stumped Travancore for six days on foot, by Cadillac and in motor launches, making 25 speeches a day. He met fishermen in thatched huts, cardamom pickers in the spice groves, farmers in their rice fields. Altogether he drew 3,000,000 to his scheduled Congess Party meetings. Everywhere he kept up a bitter tirade against India's Communists. "Look at their flag!" he cried. "They have copied the Russian flag. Very extraordinary . . . My mind fails to grasp why that flag should be imported into India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Straight Fight | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...food. Grim marches accompany the centipede as he hunts for his luncheon, and a horn tootles mysteriously while a red and black striped burrowing snake wriggles his body in the sand. But Disney's humor comes out in the music as well. Square dance music and hilarious narration spice a scorpion courtship...

Author: By Robert A. Fish, | Title: The Living Desert | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

Anonymous poets nowadays spice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some New Nonsense With Same Old Lear | 2/3/1954 | See Source »

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