Word: swirls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the President looked remarkably tanned and fit for a man with one foot in the grave, but the whispers continued to swirl around him. At his press conference, a reporter asked him politely how he was feeling and gave Ike the opportunity to stamp out the plague of rumors-at least temporarily. "Well," said the President with a grin, "I will tell you. As you people know ... I have had sort of a sore elbow which has prevented me from getting my exercise to which I am accustomed, which I think I need, and which I love.* Aside...
...sings, a pair of willowy girls dance teasingly across the stage, only to be followed by a trio of hillbilly hags who bring the dreamer down to earth. In Gold Rush (from Paint Your Wagon), the girl dancers, cast as lighthearted trollops, swirl happily into a mining town and pair off with the men-only to be left in the lurch when the lode runs out. In Short Lecture and Demonstration on the Evolution...
...swirl of officials and newspapermen and honor guards, the Shah made his way with difficulty. Two bureaucrats flung themselves on the ground before him, embraced his legs and tried to kiss his feet; embarrassed in front of the foreign newspapermen, the Shah, after patting the bureaucrats' heads, tried to disengage himself. He looked tired, and as he made his way down the reception line past teary-eyed officials, his own eyes filled too. He clasped Ambassador Henderson's hand heartily; he gave Soviet Envoy Anatoly Lavrentiev a perfunctory handclasp. Then he was off to the palace...
...most evil eye in creation. There is the merry jig of the infant octopus, no bigger than a finger, as it watches the underwater world it will inherit through the lucent membrane of its natal sac. There is the grave pavane of the beruffled nudibranchs, tiny fish that swirl among moving fronds like bright dancers in an oriental court. And there is the fish that walks, the fish that is nothing but a mouth, and the fish that shills for a poisonous anemone, luring other fish to their destruction; not to .forget the oddly compelling sight of a giant mother...
Eight minutes later, the funnel had curled into a thin spiral, with its tip dipping down to the ground (middle picture). In two minutes more (bottom picture), the funnel had formed a counterclockwise swirl and was ripping up a strip of Illinois...