Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven dwarfs. Homespun Ave has the American flag tattooed on his right arm and a bad case of the verbal staggers: "If I don't rockabye now I'll be fit for naught but the ravens in the dawn." Mama is as p'ain as an apron and just as happily inoffensive. As the growing apple on the Grayleaf tree, eleven-year-old Tone is sprayed with the customary disinfecting bromides...
Fernando Corena, as Don Pasquale, entered wearing a vivid green apron, for the Met staging makes him a passionate amateur gardener; he sang in a deeply resonant style that may ultimately restore their proper musical qualities to comic basso roles, long lost in mere boom-and-rasp renditions. Tenor Cesare Valletti sang with the sweetness and eloquence of a low-pressure Caruso. Pretty Coloratura Peters was expertly coquettish. Using her voice almost as if it were a tangible object, she tossed a trill to port, another to starboard, a third dead amidships of the great opera house...
Near by on the apron stood a gleaming twin-engined Ilyushin transport plane, the gift of Moscow's traveling leaders to Burma. Less in evidence but more significant were the other artifacts of achievement left behind: ¶ joint statement of principles flatly aligning Burmese Premier U Nu with Communists on such issues as the surrender of Formosa to the Red Chinese, admission of Peking to the U.N., unconditional prohibition of nuclear weapons...
...high, with sponsors bidding feverishly for prime time-those magic evening hours between 7:30 and 10:30. In this sellers' market, CBS and NBC are in the fortunate position of wartime butchers. At times the steak offered is obviously horsemeat, but if the man in the white apron says it's steak, steak...
Jones, who lectures in English 170, a history of American Literature, titled his article: "Undergraduates on Apron Strings...