Word: blinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whipped in off the Firth of Clyde for that last round on Troon Old Course. Tee shots curved relentlessly out of line. But from chipping distance to the pin, Beharrell was equal to anything the weather or the links demanded. He one-putted most greens. He never showed a blink of emotion. After he had lost four holes in a row, he came back later to sink a two-foot putt and win. Then he relaxed for an instant. He grabbed his cap and waved his putter aloft in his other hand. "Aye!" he shouted with relief...
...eerie indirections of the countess' mind, Novelist Druon subtly contrasts the past glories of Rome with the Via Veneto glitter of the present day. The countess celebrates the life of blazing passion and pleasure on a neo-Renaissance scale, but Author Druon is too steady-eyed to blink what Cyril Connolly has called "the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." Oddly enough, it is the countess' way of dying rather than living that is memorable. Pacing half-crazed on the burning deck of her memories, she becomes a strangely gallant figure calling to mind two lines...
Enter, Marx. In A Question of Upbringing, Author Powell created a narrator, Nicholas Jenkins, who went to a school suspiciously like his own (Eton), and at first blink the book might have been dismissed as just another clever young man's attempt to settle scores with his old school. But Powell, at 50, still writes of young men like a young man-one who has mercifully lived down his youth. Narrator Jenkins has a remarkably good ear, and records middle-and upper-class conversation with comic precision. And he is presented as a descendant of that Captain Jenkins about...
...though trying to make the TV lens blink first, Ohio's five-term Democratic Governor Frank Lausche turned his massive head and stared squarely into the eye of the Meet the Press camera. Making a rare appearance on national television last week, Lausche's words were just as direct as his gaze...
...meantime, Michales' teen-age nephew has killed Nuri Bey's nephew, and the Turko-Cretan blood bath has begun. Kazantzakis is not one to blink the horrors of war. Eyes are gouged, heads are lopped, women are raped, priests are lynched, villages are burned...