Word: cravener
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...Abominable. In Raleigh, N.C., News and Observer Columnist Charles Craven discussed a city recreation department snow man contest, said there would be "two divisions-one for white children and one for colored," but "the snow men in both divisions will be white...
Kadar and other Hungarian party brass. But at a rally next night the man whose insistence on Poland's separate road to socialism forced Khrushchev one night in October 1956 to call off Soviet armed intervention in Warsaw, for the first time spoke the required, craven words in support of Russian repression in Budapest: "We regard as correct and necessary the decision taken by the Soviet Union to give help to the forces of socialism in your country at the time. It was an international obligation on the part of the U.S.S.R., in the interests of the Hungarian people...
...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...