Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is perhaps no comic strip that has so rapidly won its way into the hearts of the American people and into the pages of their newspapers as Pogo. The puny possum and his partner sin mirth poke fun at every subject from atom bombs to truant officers with corn and candor...
This word game Kelly plays is one of the most sparking points in the strip. He finds all the oddities of the English language and puns with them until he has formed a new language for his creature creations. From Deacon Mushrat, who speaks in Old English script to pup dog who pontificates on poltergeist, each varmint adds his own grammar...
...tremendous oil reservoir. Jersey bought control of the syndicate, combined it with other Venezuelan holdings into Creole Petroleum Corp., punched holes into Lake Maracaibo's bottom from specially developed drilling barges. Now there are 2,000 lake wells, each a little steel-and-concrete island separated by a strip of water, forming one of the world's great industrial spectacles...
...Middle East during June and July, and made an intensive study of the Arab refugee question in Lebanon, Jordan and the Gaza strip. The thing is appalling . . . The Arab league does nothing for the Arab refugee except in one place, the Arab Development Project, near the Dead Sea . . . These states refuse to meet with Israelis to consider a solution of the refugee problem within the framework of the general peace settlement...
Teaser. At Fort Sam Houston, Texas, curious personnel officers had a talk with WAC Pfc. Gloria Yeager, who had listed her civilian occupation as "stripper," learned that she used to strip tobacco leaves in a cigarette factory...