Word: arching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quiet Wishes. No one expects violent explosions in Jamaica in the near future. Jamaicans are a smiling, gentle people with an abiding respect for British-style law and order. Yet Bustamante's cousin and arch political rival, Norman Washington Manley, 71, has a point when he charges that the government has failed to get the country moving as fast as it should. In private, some of Bustamante's own ministers tend to agree...
...first Lovis Corinth did not look as if he would be one of them. He went to study art in Paris when impression ism was already a decade old. Rather than join this movement, Corinth be came a star pupil of the arch-academic Nudesmith William Bouguereau...
Senator Goldwater's candidacy in itself has produced several rather unique situations. Certainly it is the first time in a goodly number of years such an arch conservative has captured a party's presidential nomination and also taken over the party machinery itself. Goldwater is, peculiarly, threatening to break up the Solid South for the first time in a hundred years against the first Southern president in the same period of time...
Senator Goldwater's candidacy in itself has produced several rather unique situations. Certainly it is the first time in a goodly number of years such an arch conservative has captured a party's presidential nomination and also taken over the party machinery itself. Goldwater is, peculiarly, threatening to break up the Solid South for the first time in a hundred years against the first Southern president in the same period of time...
...scrolls faithfully capture the Americans in every conceivable pursuit: tippling, hunting, surveying Shimoda harbor, laundering their clothes at the beach. They also suggest that U.S. sailors have not changed very much. One picture depicts a tipsy seaman dallying in an inn with five tarts, and the dialogue is suitably arch: "Oh, come a little closer to me!" "I say, I say, it seems you've had too much and can't stand up!" Japanese casualness about sex convinced Perry that they were "a lewd people." When the shogun's commissioners complained that a U.S. naval officer...