Word: craven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have collected enough Paar-snips and talented showfolk to rescue NBC from the debacle of its late America after Dark show and save Tonight for many another day. Though Tonight is still a money-losing proposition for NBC, 76 stations now carry the show instead of taking the craven's way out with old movies. In last fortnight alone, Paar has picked up some $400,000 in new business, increased his number of sponsors to nine. To show its appreciation, NBC last week exercised its option to keep Paar at work on Tonight until next March. Says Paar...
...nothing happens until one day Mummy and Benjy drag sulky old Daddy out on a picnic. Benjy spots a giant black egg. and Daddy tells him not to fool around with it, but Mummy mutters in her through-closed-teeth voice: "Don't try to make a craven...
...characters that faintly echo the bite of bigger wits now departed from the TV scene. There is Charles Vichysoisse, the leering Continental Crooner, perpetually at odds with his pianist, his white gloves and an undisciplined audience at Club Chichi. With rapid-fire changes, Soupy may become Wyatt Burp, the craven, belch-prone sheriff, or Calypso King Harry Bella, a wild-eyed, mop-domed South American who rolls drunks for a living...
...Prentice-Hall; more than 100,000 copies), offers seven commandments for self help. The Four Don'ts: 1) "Don't acquiesce ignobly!" 2) "Don't evade craven-lyi" 3) "Don't .attack vindictively!" 4) "Don't rush rashly!" The Three Do's: 1) "Do grapple courageously!" 2) "Do cooperate creatively!" 3) "Do adventure spiritually!" All of this is achieved by putting oneself in a semihypnotic trance, the main danger of which "is that you might go to sleep." If sleep is evaded, one flips to the front of the book and charts...
...have astonished him"). But Author Norris writes with more love of buildings than of people. Rhapsodies to the 20-story "thing of beauty" created by Jeff Hanes run murmurously through the book, and the Tower, though defaced by the years and its occupants, never becomes as caitiff or craven as the people who live from its earnings. Sometimes the book's human characters seem as lifeless as statuary against the soaring and vital affirmations built from steel and concrete...