Word: suck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suck candy in the Congo" (i.e., do not take innocence into dark places) seems to be the moral pointed by British Novelist Elspeth Huxley,* latest explorer to go soul-searching in the jungle. Dr. Ewart Clausen, a famed Norwegian scientist, has renounced the world for his bush clinic at Luala, in French Equatorial Africa, and has become "a secular saint in the humanist calendar." From the far corners of the earth pilgrims come to sit at his feet; he proffers a bag of sticky bull's-eyes, advice, and the magic of his presence...
...maternal dispatch from Monaco, Princess (High Society) Grace issued a bulletin on the development of five-week-old Princess Caroline, christened at week's end. Straight from the royal cradle: "Little Caroline does not suck her thumb . . . She certainly does not suck all her fingers, as some monster suggested . . . She hates hats . . . She also has a prejudice against her father's camera . . . They say she is a very pretty child, but how should I know...
...show the others what a wonder had come into their quiet lives. Brother Thomas, the cook, a man as simple and round and solid as Mother Earth, took charge of the situation. The child was crying. Brother Thomas dipped a cloth in water and gave it to him to suck. The crying stopped. Everybody began to smile. A young monk turned to the Father Superior with a pleading look. "C-can we keep him. Father...
...world's largest film-exactly twice as wide (70 mm.) as the normal Hollywood stock-and has projected it on one of the world's largest indoor screens-a vast concave gullet that opens almost as wide as Cinerama, and possesses much of the same power to suck the spectator out of his seat. Not content with that, Todd flooded this huge surface with a light almost twice as intense as any ever seen onscreen before, and so hot that the film has to be refrigerated as it passes through the Todd-AO projector...
McInerney added, "Griswold can't just suck all the food juice out of a lemon and then throw away the rind. Before Harvard entered the picture, Puente had subscribers to his series, but many cancelled when Harvard announced that they were doing the same thing...