Word: cruel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of the lengths to which critics would go in trying to explain her enigmatic smile in Leonardo da Vinci's famed portrait, she might have split her sides laughing. For in 450 years the smile has been variously interpreted as sly and tender, coquettish and aloof, cruel and compassionate, seductive and supercilious. At Yale University last week an eminent British physician, visiting professor of the history of medicine, coolly swept aside all such adjectives and offered his own theory: the lady was smiling with "placid satisfaction" because she was pregnant...
...widow--who had been in Hollywood too long to be nice and wholesome--was merry, and so was Edward. Deborah, however, grew lonely despite the company of her children--she wasn't quite as nice and wholesome as she used to be either. She decided that Edward was "extremely cruel," and they split up, and the tabloid editors were again happy, though Edward and Deborah weren...
Integration has been rejected by everyone, even the Bantu, DuPlessis continued, and universal franchise is considered impossible. Only complete separation remains, however cruel it may seem, as a solution to South Africa's problems, he insisted...
That legend was a legacy of bitterness to Janie Jones, Casey's wife, mother of his daughter and two sons. For the next 58 years she lived with The Ballad of Casey Jones-and with the cruel lines added to a Negro engine wiper's mournful song by a Tin Pan Alley hack. "The Casey Jones song has haunted my whole life since the beginning of the century," she once said. Memphis railroaders were known to fight with strangers who sang the slanderous lines. For a while, the ballad was banned in Jackson, Tenn., where Janie Jones lived...
...winds from the north meet the warm, moist air from the south-and the clash brings wild gales that have torn apart scores of ships, killed thousands of people. Last week the 16,000 ton (d.w.t.), 623-ft. limestone carrier Carl D. Bradley died in Lake Michigan's cruel November...