Word: basks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preoccupied with pub, pram and payments on their proliferating cars and washing machines, the British voters continued to bask in a magnificent Indian summer, seemed interested mostly in the diversions of the campaign. The Daily Mail put on the front page a picture of a pretty makeup girl powdering Sir Alec's nose before a TV appearance, relegated what he said to page...
...much is omitted, in fact, that little is left from which to deduce Chaplin's mature feelings and beliefs-beyond his lifelong insistence that he has never been a Communist, and the apparent mellowing of his resentment against the U.S. as he grows old and turns inward to bask in the profound joy of his life with his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, and their eight children...
...bleached his skin to wrinkled parchment; one foot is shoeless, a concession to gout; a floppy, broad-brimmed straw hat shields him from the hot Mediterranean sun. But the sun has not been up much longer than the Beaver, and he is not there merely to bask...
...supporting players, a series of well-worn cliches; are all present to bask in the light of Robertson's omnipresent grin. There is the hard-nosed commander who wants to see action, after spending the last war "hooked up at a pier in Bayonne, N. J.;" the funny cook, the wisecracking old butler, the boobish aide, the guy who knows he's going to get killed, and does. Ty Hardin, as Kennedy's second in command, wears a ridiculous blond beard, but mumbles well. And he's terrific at diving into foxholes. James Gregory, as Commander Ritchie, who finally shoots...
Miss Sexton, a member of the Radcliffe Institute, has contributed to The New Yorker, Harper's, Accent, Hudson Review, and Partisan Review and has published two volumes of her verse, To Bedlam and Part Way Bask and All My Pretty Ones. In 1959 she held the Robert Frost Fellowship at the Broad Loaf Writers' Conference...