Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this little bump here looks like a branch. Turn it around and we have a head, or a flower. But I don't want a head, a branch or a flower, so I mold it a bit"-giving the kernel a cruel squeeze-"or I may throw it away." And with an expression of critical disdain he threw it on the tablecloth...
...away from Oxford, a Middle East correspondent for the London Evening Standard had made a guess of his own, cabled it to his paper. The Standard put in a phone call to a villa on the French Riviera. Robust, 70-year-old Antonin Besse, the man the Standard wanted to reach, was not home, but his secretary was. Was the anonymous donor really Monsieur Besse? "Why, that's a secret," blurted the secretary. "M. Besse doesn't want anyone to know...
...Stripes. (When he was kicked off the paper by General MacArthur in 1946, Rubin denied he was a Communist, and yowled that MacArthur was infringing on freedom of the press-TIME, March u, 1946. Rubin started working for the Worker as soon as he was discharged.) A little farther away from the field of political rowdydow, Sportwriter Bill Mardo only occasionally thumps the Communist...
Damon had plugged for "regulated competition." Thus, selling American's subsidiary, American Overseas Airlines, would be a step away from Damon's ideas and towards a chosen instrument. So Damon was not told about the deal till it was all set (TIME, Dec. 20). He began feeling, in his own words, like an "ideological schizophrenic." Last week, after 13 years at American, 51-year-old Ralph Damon quit...
While the husband is away in the army, his wife is chased by a slightly mangy wolf (Stewart Granger) full of bad intentions. Gilliat's sympathy for all the people caught in this grade B triangle gives it the look of pathos. He softens contempt for the villain by proving him to be as much an unhappy fool as he is a rascal. When the hero's sister writes a tattling letter, Gilliat balances the tattler's meanness with a compassionate picture of her miserable marriage. Besides endowing his work with warmth and humanity, Director Gilliat knows...