Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles' Wrigley Field last week. Bassey came back to throw so many punches so fast that his muscular Mexican opponent might as well have been tilting with a windmill. A savage uppercut separated Moreno from his mouthpiece with such violence that third-row fans caught the spray. Even when he was completely off balance, Bassey almost removed Moreno from his haircut with a pair of left hooks and a right uppercut delivered in split-second succession. At the end of the third round Pajarito went down for good...
...began. While a jazz band blared and soot bombs burst in air, No. 2 Tory Butler plunged stoically onward with his nuclear-energy speech, wearing a wintry smile and, progressively, two ripe tomatoes, a ghoulish facial paste of flour and eggs, wreaths of toilet paper and, finally, foamy spray from a battery of fire extinguishers. Among the other casualties: a photographer kayoed by a huge cabbage featly thrown, a constable hurled through a plate-glass window, four exuberant students collared for what a magistrate called "sheer hooliganism." After the riot ended, Rector Butler headed back for tranquil old London, uttered...
...central government's response was swift: it ordered the dishonorable discharge and immediate arrest of Colonels Husein, Lubis, Djambek and Simbolon, sent two B-25 bombers over Padang to spray the city with leaflets announcing the colonels' dismissal for "endangering the security of the state...
...bristled with ammoniac fumes. To prepare the quadruped idols for the worshiping throng, handlers laved them in exotic ceremonies. They rubbed chalk into the hides of sheep dogs and collies to stiffen and brighten the white areas. Some anointed the beasts with such hair beautifiers as Helene Curtis Spray Net and Adorn. One high priestess to an Airedale basted her dog with beer and brilliantine to stiffen and shine its coat. Terrier handlers carefully plucked hair from their dogs' legs and chests, leaving a pile of red fuzz on the floor. Rumors flew that some of the competitors even...
...color pages). Big farmers and ranchers, such as Idaho's R. J. Simplot, who needs three planes to supervise his many farming operations and other interests, are learning that they cannot get along without planes. Using them to patrol fences, herd cattle, seed wheat or spray cotton, U.S. farmers are adding many millions annually to their income. As an invaluable tool of industry and commerce, light planes also add millions more to the U.S. businessman's income...