Word: blushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allen Hynek, Associate Director of the Smithsonian Observatory, backed his co-lecturer of Natural Sciences 9, claiming that students' "lack of adequate training in mathematics was appalling" and that many "blush at the sight of a logarithm...
whimper, blarney, badger, blush, deceive...
...Isaac Newton. In time he lost his estates, was reduced to living on handouts. He died hoping that some "Ingeniose and publick-spirited young Man" might one day "polish and compleat what I have delivered rough hewen." Aubrey confessed that his frank sketches contained things "that would raise a Blush in a young Virgin's cheeke," and urged the sewing-on of "some Figge-leaves...
...five-column picture showed Britain's Prince Philip in Denmark standing over a simpering nurse named Peggy Goodchild (see cut). But if the Express (circ. 4,042,334) knew what "caused the twinkle in the Prince's eye and the obvious blush on the maiden's cheek," it was not telling. Instead, it offered a ?100 ($280) prize to the reader who sent in a caption arch enough to "capture the mood of the moment in the brightest...
...over. And the predictions his experts had given him, of overtaking the U.S. by 1975, were too pessimistic. Their arithmetic was O.K., but to wait that long would be to "let the ideologists of the capitalist world go on prattling for too long a time. Let the comrade economists blush. Sometimes man must exceed his own strength by making a sudden spurt...