Word: browing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Velloso, bald Brazilian delegate to the U.N. Security Council, was taken to Manhattan's bosom with a vengeance: a taxi bearing him down Park Avenue slambanged into another, knocked him off his seat. Next day at the council meeting, Delegate Velloso sported court plasters on brow and beak...
...waited for the French and English translations of his statement before rising. Then he pushed back his chair, straightened his black double-breasted coat and walked briskly toward the far door, followed by his three advisers. His normally pale face was flushed. For the first time, Jimmy Byrnes' brow was beaded with sweat...
George Marshall paused, puckered his brow intently, continued with even more deliberation: "If we are to have peace-if the world wants peace, there are compelling reasons why China's present effort must succeed. This depends in a large measure on actions of other nations. If China is ignored, or if there is scheming to thwart her present aspirations, her effort will fail...
...from an orphanage. Shortly thereafter she dies from a heart attack, leaving the weeping child to the care of the bereaved foster father. Then matters become totally lachrymose: the foster father does not want the child, but the child wants him. Even cheerful, extrovert William Bendix, knotting his Neanderthal brow, has a hard time making everybody stop crying...
...Emotionally I was reduced to a most primitive level of hope-fear. My feeling of apprehension and insecurity during the first operation was relieved by two factors: the authoritative, calm voice of the surgeon and the comforting physical contacts of [two women] physicians (who stroked my brow, pressed...