Word: blanching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racial philosophy makes very little sense. I don't see how it could work." Secretary of Housing and Urban Development George Romney got off easily, as did Presidential Assistant Daniel P. Moynihan. "Bob," Evans said, "I think those fat-cat Republicans at the Union League Club would probably blanch if they watched Dr. Moynihan talking the way he did to us." Moynihan had proposed a $9 billion federal grant for family allowances...
...mouth belongs to Coach Emile ("The Cat") Francis, 41, a diminutive ex-goalie who patrols the Ranger bench during games, screaming profanities that would make a dock-walloper blanch. "Cash and cussing" is the way one Ranger describes Francis' coaching methods: players who turn in exceptional performances find something extra in their pay envelopes; those who let down get a stinging spray of verbal vitriol. Last season, after a lackadaisical game against Montreal, Francis announced that a "television deal" was in the offing. The players' faces brightened. "Yeah," sneered the coach, "the Red Skelton show needs some sloppy
...share their bishops' feeling that a trial was out of order. However much they may wince at his gaucheries or blanch at his glib demythologizing of church teachings, plenty of theologians agree with what Pike is trying to do, if not with the way he does it. Pike, says Episcopal Bishop Stephen Bayne, a member of the committee that drafted the statement, "has awakened a lot of people to the fact that a lot of theology is wordmongering-and that there is nothing behind the words." Cambridge University Theologian Hugh Montefiore admires Pike for "putting aside the intricacies...
...Blanching Moguls. Valenti does not presume to "tell the heads of movie companies what kind of films to make" or pretend that the industry is not ruled by the box office. He does think that he can infuse Hollywood with imagination and a zest for quality. He wants to upgrade the Oscar competition, turn it from a popularity contest into a genuine system of reward for achievement. It may make some oldtime movie moguls blanch at the thought, but only a freshman like Valenti can get away with the proclamation that the M.P.A.A. will march "with banners flying...
...that they will be out of harm's way. The Rao briskly institutes a private mutiny of his own. He transforms the matrons into concubines, and the proper Victorians are soon fighting to embrace a fate worse than death. The romantic and violent 19th century is Author Lesley Blanch's special province. Painter, stage designer, film critic and ex-wife of Novelist Romain Gary, she has written several skillful biographies of the period (The Wilder Shores of Love, The Sabres of Paradise). In this book, her first novel, she proves herself a comic writer with a range...