Word: squirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tigers racked up 284 kills and 300 probables, in exchange for twelve pilots, two crew chiefs and 21 planes. He rewrote the book of aerial combat, insisting on two-plane teams, dropping the first fire bombs on the inflammable architecture of the East, coaching his sky raiders to dive, squirt, pass and run. He lived on rice and red ants, coffee and cigarettes; he dwelt in mud and bamboo; he dressed in shorts and a billed, battered, nondescript cap. "Old Leatherface,'' the Chinese fondly called him, and guarded his precious store of gasoline...
...with a Gun. "The Lord called me into the ministry and the church called me away from it," says Franklin Clark Fry. "This is a deep psychological problem for me. I would much rather have a pastorate than have to squirt grease into ecclesiastical machinery...
...afficionados and the just plain artsy craftsy have taken to wine bags in recent years. Just a little squeeze and some accurate aim, and a tasty squirt is obtained. The bag is sloppy for the novice, however, and even the experts frown at the leathery taste the wine soon acquires...
...thought the pennant was in the bag. But the Braves seemed like men under a curse. Their three last games were with St. Louis. They fumbled away the first game 5-4. Next day, with the score tied at 1-1, Third Baseman Eddie Mathews let a bounding ball squirt away from him in the twelfth inning, and with it the game...
...times, of course, with several seas (Red, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean) to fish in, Cousteau's camera can hardly help making a spectacular catch. There are frames that spurt, slumber, dazzle, gloat like stained-glass windows in a sunken cathedral. There is an oozily loathsome shot of the sea squirt, a creature that resembles nothing so much as a length of large intestine on the loose. There is a lot of helling around the coral reefs on submarine scooters that look like sawed-off torpedoes. And there is a hilarious conversation among whales, in which the moviegoer learns an awful...