Word: blushful
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...wives of three cabinet ministers) waiting 30 minutes before he arrived in his fuchsia Cadillac convertible. All was forgiven when the middleweight champ from Harlem made a little speech in French, then topped it off with: "Hey, now I get to kiss Missus President!" With a gay blush, France's First Lady, Mme. Vincent Auriol, stood up for a kiss on each cheek...
...troops . . . Churchill's statement [that the U.S. Mediterranean Fleet is a deterrent to aggression] was the statement of an aggressor clanking with atomic weapons . . . Churchill's language is the language of Hitler . . . Churchill and his cannibalistic advocates such as [Ernest] Davies [British deputy] would make even Cleopatra blush...
...Kase gave his own judgment in his "Briefkase" column: "A first blush of sympathy for the corrupted weaklings has given way to cold rage because of their lack of loyalty to school and a calloused greed for their Judas pieces of silver...
...blush for you and your "G.B.S." feature. For the first time in my years of reading TIME, I was unable to finish an article. The author, may he always be nameless, is a diddler in humbug...
...Faulkner's latest novel and the fairest, most graceful estimate yet of Fellow Critic Van Wyck Brooks's work. Sometimes his literary snobbishness leads Wilson into his most readable and most amusing writing. "Ambushing a Best-Seller" will make readers of the trashier kinds of historical novels blush for themselves and the authors who provide their fare; "What Became of Louis Bromfield" is fair criticism of a popular writer, but cruel enough to double as a pitiless obituary...