Word: yucca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, a sculptor named Yucca Salamunich, after carefully considering the subject of legs, was ready to make a generality: "Yunnhh! Hollywood con nects legs with sex. Legs have beauty for other reasons." Specifically, Salamunich had prepared a list of legs he admires...
Crowned: Cinemactress Alexis Smith, by roly-poly California Sculptor Yucca Salamunich. who says she has The Sexiest Head in Hollywood. Judy Garland, Salamunich decided, has The Least Sexy Head. Excerpt from the admiring sculptor's informal citation to Miss Smith: "She has the perfect North American head. Those high cheekbones and yunnnh! That nose! Long and straight. Passionate women always have long, straight noses...
Portuguese growers in the Azores knew a century ago that burning wood in their hothouses made the pineapples ripen quicker. (It was the ethylene gas in the wood smoke.) Following the principle, Hawaiian pineapple-growers have long been dropping pellets of calcium carbide into the hearts of their yucca-like pineapple plants. Moistened by dew, the pellets give off acetylene (similar to ethylene) which makes the plants bear earlier...
...wide, flat valley dotted with greasewood, yucca and bunch grass selected as site for the test explosion is known in Manhattan Project doubletalk as "Trinity." Most of the land once belonged to a rancher named MacDonald, whose wrecked ranch house was the first human habitation to be blasted by the terrible force of exploding atoms. Ten thousand yards from the test site are the two low, heavy-timbered buildings, banked to the roof with earth, which housed the bomb-exploding generator and observation instruments (known in atom-scientist code as "Beta" and "Ten Thousand"). Nearby stand two white-painted Sherman...
Dressed in a seamy old coat and patched cotton-sack apron. Patriarch Carver puttered about his memorial museum at Tuskegee last week, unpacking, dusting and hanging his life work as an artist. One of his paintings, a larger-than-life-size picture of a yucca plant, was half a century old, got honorable mention at Chicago's 1893 World's Fair. Of it, he crowed delightedly: "I painted that from my memories of the Western plains. My school-teacher tried to copy it. She failed. She forbade the other pupils to copy it, because she couldn...