Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wisp-haired, preoccupied Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle chose a deft, architectonic watercolor of The Rockies by California's Dong Kingman...
...been a tug-of-war between Boolba the scientist and Boolba the artist. For reasons of a dietary nature (one must eat), the former eclipsed the latter--but only superficially. The "fire" still burns within, and with a little pursuasive fanning, one can readily be treated to a wisp of artistic smoke in the form of an original poem, pencil sketch, oil painting, and on occasion, a stage...
...Bubbling." At 2 a.m. on Monday there was a wisp of gas and a roughneck snapped "Fires out!" The drill motors and the engines of the watchers' automobiles were silenced; greasy mud began to slop out of the two-inch tube onto the derrick floor. All night long the Cottingham belched and spluttered, while roustabouts scraped the mud into testing tanks...
...think it's hard to climb a mountain and sing, you try it one of these days. Try it when the July sun comes down upon your back with blisterin heat and the lizards are scurryin over the dead leaves ahuntin a wisp of shade on the backbone of a mountain that is steamin in the swelterin heat like a pan of bread in an oven. ... I hurried up to the grave to look down in it. It wasn't as deep as I was tall. . . . On another grave was a tattered flag, that the wind had faded...
Tiger was a mere wisp of a man, but he had no intention of taking a ribbing from some Ivy League Privates. So he got mean and wrathful and sent some of the boys to see the mess sergeant because their beds were a quarter of an inch from the crack in the floor that stood as the great divide. Two nights later we ate Tiger. Not literally, of course, but it was delicious. In the midst of a black and tortured night march, we broke into a sombre dirge. "Hold that Tiger, rrrrrrooomph, hold that Tiger, rrrrromph. The Tiger...