Word: swivels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buddhism, which originated in India in the 5th Century B.C., had spread all over the East but practically disappeared from its homeland by the 13th Century A.D.The Buddhist ascendancy mellowed Indian sculpture into a less sensuous character. Instead of the bulbous breasts, swivel hips, wasp waists and whirling, multiple arms of Hinduism's gods, the Buddha had a repose of form and peace of countenance somewhat like that of the greatest Greek sculpture...
...strategic imports, all new defense plants, and the important expansion of aluminum and magnesium factories. With all this control the Secretary of Commerce could have been the most influential man in the Administration, other than the President, in pushing ahead the defense program. But instead he chose to swivel contentedly in his Washington office while the manufacture of tanks, planes, and guns fell behind...
Lana Turner, who used to be satisfied with filling out sweaters, has now advanced to filling out the feminine half of co-starring teams. First she swivel-hipped around Clark Gable to turn in a goodly sum of shekels for M. G. M. in "Honky Tonk." Now she's back to play house and other things with Number 2 glamour-boy Robert Taylor in "Johnny Eager...
Died. Dr. Mahlon William Locke, 61, Ontario's famed assembly-line purveyor of arthritis treatments (by foot yanking); of a heart attack; near his home, Williamsburg, Ont. He did most of his work seated in a swivel chair in his yard, whirling around to queues of patients converging on him like the spokes of a wheel. He charged $1 a visit (usually less than a minute), and at the height of his popularity attracted as many as 1,000 patients...
Ball of Fire (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is saturated with some of the juiciest, wackiest, solid American slang ever recorded on celluloid. The plot is not as fresh as its idea, but the picture will do until its producer, swivel-tongued Samuel ("Include Me Out") Goldwyn, wins his own lifelong race with the English language...