Word: wadded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instructor dangled a sheet of paper between his fingers, asked the student to imagine that he was that paper. The student, concentrating, felt thin, flexible, fragile. Crunch!A-the instructor crumpled the paper into a wad. The student winced. Then both smiled- the student had become "sensitized...
...does, however, have Beatrice Lillie. If you've ever seen Miss Lillie, you won't need any recommendations. If you haven't, zip down to the nearest record shop and spend your wad on a Lillie album...
...would have been easier on Artist Peter Kurd [Jan. 13] if L.B.J. shared Robert Burns's sentiment: "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us. To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. An' foolish notion...
...mountain labored to bring it forth. Producer Walter Mirisch, having paid James Michener $600,000 for the screen rights to a 937-page bestseller that has SOLD 4,000,000 copies, backed his investment with a wad that less than a century ago would have bought the island the picture is named after. For $14,000,000 he got Panavision, Color by Deluxe, top-chop talent (Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris), two shrewd scripters (Dalton Trumbo and Daniel Taradash), and a director (George Roy Hill) whose dependability is warm milk to any producer's ulcer...
When the last exam of the spring term is over, most well-esteemed university professors are likely to be already en route to the airport with their luggage. Carrying a wad of traveler's checks courtesy of some big foundation or Government agency, today's academician is off to dispense advice to a foreign government, finish a book in the splendor of the English countryside, burrow in the site of an ancient ruin, or pursue his research to tropical Islands, glacial lakes, laboratory ships, remote capitals or perhaps even the Great Barrier Reef...