Word: stupors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to speed or crawl as the spirit moved him; to read new Burma-Shave signs, flip cigarettes at rural mail boxes, or park and fall into a stupor with the sun on his neck." . . . Even before Maine's catastrophic forest fires of 1947, Maine, with most other states, was trying to educate people and discourage them from throwing live ashes from automobiles or other moving vehicles. TIME, instead of condoning this criminal practice of flipping cigarette butts as an amusing sport, should . . . point out the dangers of such carelessness...
...somewhere in an automobile. He wanted to breathe exhaust fumes and fresh spring air just for the tonic effect. He wanted to speed or crawl as the spirit moved him; to read new Burma-Shave signs, flip cigarettes at rural mail boxes, or park and fall into a stupor with the sun on his neck...
...Crime, traditionally heavy favorites, will field a traumatic lineup. Wily staffers have filled the holes left by the loss of such stars as R. Sibley "The Cat" Ludenderff and "Mad Anthony" Carodny with new blood. The rags-to-riches nine will pit the skill of veteran receiver Backyard Stupor and hurler A. P. "Benjy" Farb against the speed of Olivoyl Quislin, who is the probably mound choice of the alien ibismen...
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...Yorker, who is vaguely aware that New York City is horribly uncomfortable but likes to think of even its discomforts as somehow being the latest thing, stirred uneasily in his stupor last week. The simple matter of taking a bus ride seemed to have got out of hand...