Word: clown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite the recent relaxation, life in the Soviet Union has a boring and sometimes even a brutish quality. Outside his home, the Russian cannot walk, sit clown or breathe without seeing a slogan, a flag, a statistic, a portrait of Lenin, a piece of heroic Soviet statuary. He is rarely allowed to tour outside the Soviet Union by himself, even in other socialist countries, and he must show an internal passport when he travels within his own country. A Russian spends much of his free time standing in queues, where he must push and heave to defend his place. Partly...
...himself at diplomatic soirees and powwows. Too much wow and not enough pow. Mr. George Brown can no longer hope to be accepted and acclaimed as an intelligent Foreign Secretary if he does not display greater reticence over the point at which Genial George, or George the Clown, takes over...
...Colonel Papadopoulos." She then called the members of the ruling junta "simple people, a bit ignorant. All in all they are mediocre and colorless, except of course Pattakos"-the general who heads the Ministry of the Interior. As for him: "He is a mediocre man who acts like a clown." Moreover, said Helen, newly appointed Information Minister Theophylactos Papaconstantinou had told her when he was still an Athens columnist that "I feel like vomiting" in the presence of the colonels-and she had the tape recording to prove...
...fell behind right away. A throwing error by Scott allowed Killebrew to score. That was all right. Scott was a clown. Still, it was Killebrew who scored. That ominous home run yesterday and now this first run. Evil seemed to have found its agent...
...second inning Yastrzemski muffed a bouncing single. Another run scored. Scott was a clown, but Yastrzemski was everything. By itself the error meant little--only a run. But one had to weigh its physic consequences, its value as a clue thrown out by fortune. Working backwards from the outcome one can always discover the clues. The problem was to work forwards--isolate the clues, determine their value, chart their relationships, and conclude the outcome in advance...