Word: blushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...holding hands and smiling coyly at each other. But Frank and Breda, caught between excitement and embarrassment, kept County Kerry-and a good part of the world-waiting. "It's in the hands of God," commented Frank. "She's very nice." "After all," added Breda with a blush, "we only met a few hours ago. Up to then, he was only a man in a bottle...
...boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r"; "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"; "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"; "Some mute inglorious Milton"; "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"; "The noiseless tenor of their...
Necklines & Blushes. Crime shows also got their lumps (in Gathings' words: "TV is a continuation of nothin' in the world but shootin' and killin' and stompin' on people in alleys"), but sex got by far the biggest play. Illinois' Republican Congressman Fred Busbey (who is both an Elk and a Moose) gave a resounding if not very relevant introduction to Chicago News Commentator Paul Harvey as "one of the greatest living Americans today" and one who has long been in the "forefront of the fight on Communism." Harvey attributed TV's woes...
...parietal rules at the college would make most Harvard deans blush. College men who arrive at Bennington for the first time soon feel at home. Stretched out comfortably in a girl's room with a glass in hand. All this abundance ends at 6.30 P.M. At that time, guests can either remain in the house living room or set out in search of something to do. The clause which really shocks outsiders is the one that allows girls to sign out until seven in the morning. Of course, a girl cannot do this too often. There's no written...
...French around Bordeaux, after a first blush of enthusiasm over the prosperity they thought would arrive with the G.I.s, have now become sour and standoffish toward their guests. The men of the 126th return the uncomfortable apathy, keep to themselves on their weekend excursions to nearby cities and villages and look forward only to the summer when their federal hitches may end and they can go back home...