Word: callow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...larvae's squirmings, the workers lose their restlessness. The whole colony marches into a hollow log. After a few days of this seclusion, the queen is gravid. Her abdomen swells enormously, and she lays some 30,000 eggs, which hatch into tender white larvae. When both larvae and "callow" ants are ready to travel, the colony becomes nomadic again...
...senseless sinning makes for a fair amount of pulpy entertainment, nicely paced and aptly delivered for the first hour or so, more & more tortuously protracted from there on out. Glenn Ford has a good deal of style as the young scoundrel, though he looks a couple of decades too callow to browbeat tungsten tycoons. George Macready, looking rather like an icicle outfitted by Wetzel, does nicely by his questionable assignment-which is to make a Nazi glamorous. But all in all it is Rita Hayworth's picture, and people who don't bother too much about the last...
...Take an Edict." King Clode summoned the Royal Recorder. His Majesty dictated: "Write it plain and write it clear: No son of mine shall wed a deer." But the smart princess had already given King Clode's sons, Princes Thag, Callow and Jorn, deeds of valor to perform in rivalry for her hand-or, it might be, hoof...
Once or twice, when he was in a tight corner at committee meetings, he looked to Anthony Eden for guidance. By comparison with Eden, whetted by 19 years of disciplined British diplomacy, or with Molotov, the hardened product of ruthless revolution, Ed Stettinius seemed almost callow. But when the chips were down, he earned their respect and that of the conference...
...surprised beneficiaries of the estate of the late Albert H. Phillips of Eastbourne, England, but got no part of his estimated $76,000 cash bequests. Instead, "as a tribute of respect for their outstanding qualities of leadership," each was willed a watercolor painting by obscure 19th-Century Artist John Callow (for Roosevelt: New York Harbour; for Churchill: Fishing Boat...