Word: spilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minute's Wait, the longest and best of the lot, is a back-thwacking, shillyshally riot of slapstick. A train-a gruesome Irish hybrid of the Toonerville Trolley and a Long Island Railroad local -pulls into Dunfaill for a minute's stop. Its motley passengers immediately spill out into the station bar and some hilarious vignettes. To make room for a goat, a bewildered British couple are demoted from their first-class compartment into third, there to rub insensitive feelers with a slithering mess of outraged Irish lobsters. A sweater-girl (full-blown by Maureen Connell) snares...
...parable of East-West relations, the book is not worth a spill of rice paper. Yet somehow it may be fascinating as an example of the kind of charm which, incomprehensibly, industrious Pearl Buck has exercised over a generation of U.S. women readers-and even over the Nobel Prize committee. Perhaps unintentionally, the book gives a portrait of merciless maternalism. The real crisis comes when young Rennie, forgetting that father Gerald in Peking has forbidden him to use any but the "stately name of Mother," comes out with the awful truth...
...most dynamic and disturbing artist of his time. Ferocious bronze owls glare from under the palms, a huge stone head of a woman lies in the basin of the fountain, plywood pipe-players are scattered about the lawn. Inside, the three main rooms are jammed. Canvases crowd the walls, spill out of crates. Weird ceramics stand in disheveled confusion on the floor. The rest of the space is taken up by a litter of objects that Picasso collects compulsively, objects that may set him off on a new theme or be incorporated into a new sculpture - a hollow elephant...
...accident, W. B. Converse, manager of Kellogg's nuclear division, made a routine visit to the Houston plant. The monitoring instruments told him that something was wrong. He shut the plant and called in experts of Tracerlab Inc. to check and decontaminate. He did not report the spill to the Atomic Energy Commission. The other Kellogg people tried to keep it quiet too-no easy job. The Tracerlab men with their instruments attracted unavoidable attention, and rumors flew thick. Both the Northway and McVey houses proved to be radioactive. So were the hair and one paw of Peggy...
...last the spill was reported to the AEC, and a news item from Washington told the Houston papers. A wave of hysteria beat on the Kellogg plant and the people concerned with its accident. Friends of Mrs. Northway refused to ride to church in her car. Excitement increased when the Northway and McVey houses were vigorously decontaminated...