Word: almond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Joyce? Finn's taste of love is more bitter. He worships Shoon Lawlee, a gingery colleen with almond-shaped eyes. She spurns him, and flounces off to the big world, only to come home pregnant and die. Finn buries the sting of it in underground work for a united Ireland. In the end he is hanged, and Ches gets his princely belt, only to see Cloone razed by fire...
...open sea. There, thanks to Konomi, Tokyo's gangsters, plutocrats, diplomats, legislators and sybarites could shake off the dust of the city in a palace rivaling Roman Cara-calla's wildest dreams. It boasted 50 private bath and massage rooms tended by a corps of 130 cute, almond-eyed masseuses in pale blue bras and panties. Miss Turko, they all called themselves, in keeping with the Turkish atmosphere...
...Otis plain to see this game Pitts two teams, even-Stevens in Emery way," the almond-eyed Seer remarked...
...introducing his visitor, Lieut. General Ned Almond only said what he thought a lot of people believed. "Governor Dewey has been a candidate for the Presidency and, for all we know out here, he may be a candidate again next year," the general said as he presented Governor Dewey to his X Corps staff officers in Korea. Thereupon, Tom Dewey rose and said it more flatly than he had ever said it at home: "I am not a candidate and will definitely oppose any attempt to make me a candidate next year...I have no plans to ever...
...column in Madrid's Arriba, Critic d'Ors led off for the conservatives: "How can we conceive of Jesus disguised as a sannyasi floating on a lotus lily, symbolizing renunciation of the world He came to save?...or the Conception as an almond-eyed beauty scantily clad in a sari?...The Church universally is based on unity of language, prayer and iconography...