Word: blanketly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Motley Assortment. These sentiments were drowned, however, by a thunder of skepticism, indignation and wrath. Predictably, conservative Columnist David Lawrence dropped a blanket indictment. Even the address's title, State of the Union, was inaccurate, Lawrence said...
Dogs & Caterpillars. Stern is a tall, round-shouldered man with fat hands and "pale, spreading hips" whose job is to write descriptive literature on labels. His wife is large-eyed, long-nosed and sexy, his lonely eight-year-old son spends most of his time sucking on a blanket. Stern moves them to the suburbs, buys a house for $23,000, and at once begins to suffer the consequences...
Moreover, the loudest hollering came from those who were the least hurt-from some Washington correspondents whose initiative has gone to sleep under a blanket of Government handouts. Recently, when Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger distributed a particularly bulky release, he was asked to identify the key passages, so that these press inquirers would not have to waste their own time searching for the lead of their story. In any list of appointments, White House correspondents no longer have to hunt for the significant names: Salinger has gotten the word-he conveniently separates the wheat from the chaff...
...lost consciousness, and when she came to, the assailant was choking her mother on the bed. Gail screamed, and the man dragged her to her own bedroom, tied her hands and returned once more to attack her mother. Soon, he got back to Gail, wrapped her in a blanket, hauled her out to his car, threw her in the back and drove away...
...Aiken and Muriel Rukeyser. That mistress of creepy grownup prose, Novelist Shirley Jackson (The Lottery), has written a sunlit winner, Nine Magic Wishes. Erskine Caldwell, the drugstore Rabelais, has "dumfounded" Crowell-Collier with a primer described as "amazingly gentle." The usually dour Playwright Arthur Miller offers Jane's Blanket, which he outlines thus: "A little girl named Jane sadly watches her big pink blanket grow smaller and smaller while she grows bigger and bigger. Finally Jane is made happy again when threads from her blanket warm a nest for baby birds." If the new series goes on this...