Word: blushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Puny Shield. At first blush this wave of war pride might be expected to help Premier Nobusuke Kishi's efforts to expand Japan's puny Self-Defense Forces (150,000 soldiers, 20,000 sailors, 15,000 airmen). But despite the fact that members of the Self-Defense Forces can quit the service almost any time, volunteers are few, and in March the government ruefully revealed that of 8,200 recruits accepted in 1957, only 60% had bothered to show up at a basic-training center. Clearly what is reviving in Japan is not so much militarism as simple...
Perhaps his strongest political asset is a highly photogenic family of four boys and a girl, who go to St. James Protestant Episcopal Church in Bernardsville in the dark green, blue and white kilts of clan Forbes. Their job: to offset the orange-blossom blush worn by handsome, greying Democratic Governor Robert B. (for Baumle) Meyner, 48, since he married Adlai Stevenson's distant relative by marriage, Helen Stevenson, last January. But Forbes has other ammunition to fire at Meyner. During the primary he sighted over the head of perennial G.O.P. candidate Wayne Dumont Jr., blasted Meyner...
...Western principles he is trying to preserve in South Africa. The fact that the Prime Minister felt compelled to change the term "apartheid" to "separate development" indicates that he does feel some embarrassment in the face of world disapproval. Perhaps further moral recrimination will cause him a more effective blush...
...political speculation was suspended while the niceties of senatorial eloquence were observed. Two days after Knowland announced his retirement, colleagues on both sides of the Senate aisle seized half an hour for a peculiar ritual at which they excel: lauding each other in terms that would make an egomaniac blush...
...gold fluid and hanging in a rack, but prove to be vastly bloated ants-the living storage vats of the honey-cask tribe. There is some marvelous stop-motion cinematography. Roots grow like wild white worms before the watcher's eyes. Gourds bulge, flowers bloom, tomatoes blush. Best of all are the scenes of underwater life. The archer fish, with fearful accuracy, spits liquid arrows several feet into the air, and bags a butterfly for dinner. The angler fish, looking like nothing but a clump of seaweed, sprouts a fishing pole from its nose, and dangles a tempting piece...