Word: wallowingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their two-bit philosophy for our thirty-five cents. Therein lies the true tragedy of the magazine, for it is all too apparent that these undergraduates, so eager to say something, really have nothing at all to communicate. The reader has the feeling of having traversed a hog wallow only to be informed that he is dirty...
...three dimensions with an aircraftlike "stick." And as Skipjack dives and banks and turns in the dark depths, propelled by her tireless nuclear engine, the rest of the 83-man crew hang on for dear life. Only when the Skipjack comes to the surface does she tend to wallow clumsily like a surfaced whale...
Showers for Pigs. The indoor life cycle of the chickens forecasts the future, for all farm animals. Purdue University has a $700,000 climate-control program in which, among other things, pigs take regular shower baths. Says Animal Science Professor Frederick N. Andrews: "Pigs do not wallow in mud because they like to be dirty. They wallow in mud because they have no sweat glands to keep them cool." With daily or even hourly shower baths, meticulous regulation of the temperature, humidity and even the air movement around them for each day of their lives, Purdue's hogs grow...
High Adventure (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Wildebeest bound, elephants lumber, hippopotamuses wallow, and Lowell Thomas clambers up Central Africa's Mountains of the Moon. Color...
...hands. Dressed in tuxedo trousers and open-throated shirt, Conductor Sawallisch led his orchestra through a performance marked by a water-clear sense of orchestral relationships and rock-sure control. He attacked at a slower than usual tempo, underscored the sensuous quality of the music without letting his orchestra wallow in it. There were the usual first-night flaws. During the second-act love duet, the word über-mächtig "vanished without trace" from Tenor Wolfgang Windgassen's memory. With a series of semaphore cues that almost sent him clambering on the stage, Sawallisch brought order...