Word: squishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That would be enough, but there's more. The sound-effects man was obsessed with reducing everything to tape--including the subtle squish of a knife in the belly. Edmund O'Brien and Brando confuse drama with intensity and emotion with shouting. And the producer staffed Cassius's band of conspirators with film lot extras noted chiefly for Grade B gangster movies and smoked alfalfa sagas--making it difficult to take their pentameters with the proper seriousness...
...dust bowl. "It was a joy just to lie in bed listening [to it]," wrote Frank Grimes, the aged editor of the Abilene (Texas) Reporter News. "If you had been just a little younger, you'd have climbed out of bed and rushed into the yard to squish the heavenly mud between your toes and turn your face to the sky." Many a farmer did stand shivering happily in the open; at Brownfield, Texas, the high-school band staged an impromptu parade, and a pretty girl named Kay Kissinger was elected "Miss Drought Breaker...