Word: blushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasion a great gift for saying them. There was still the fun of watching a superb showman up to his old tricks-but some of them did seem decidedly old. There was still some satisfaction in watching him chessboard his old ideas-and seem at first blush to contrive new gambits...
...first time since Lenin's death the U.S. is confronted by a Communist ideology that moves toward world domination with a line that is meant to sound like sweet reason. Already in its first blush this is having its desired effect on some of the colonial and neutral nations, as evidenced by Nehru's warm applause for the Russian new look in New Delhi (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Boston Grammar School Committee sadly reported that "a large proportion of the scholars in our first classes, boys and girls of 14 and 15 years of age, when called on to write simple sentences . . . cannot write, without such errors in grammar, in spelling, and in punctuation, as we should blush to see in a letter from a son or daughter of their...
...conclusions is "in the case of an individual whom we have never met, the clothes he is wearing tells at once something of his sex..." Proceeding from such sound observations, he concludes that the three purposes of clothing are decoration, modesty, and protection. In addition to traditional clothes ("a blush upon the face of humanity") he recognizes scars, tatoos, painting, mutilation, and deterioration. In the future he sees more zippers, fewer "finicky items" such as ties, collars flaps, and loose sleeves...
...French. "If you could not have freedom, you could still have vengeance, and that was all anyone really wanted now." The setting alone lends special interest to the book, and Author Bowles brings the Moroccan locale to life with meticulous realism. If his cast of characters has a cosmetic blush that suggests not the novelist's but the embalmer's art, that is a quality which fans of Bowles's rather special fiction have long since learned to enjoy...