Word: cur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plumbing which made life miserable for First Ladies of other administrations. The house now boasts a white and stainless-steel electric kitchen in which meals for the largest banquet can be prepared, three automatic dishwashers, a laundry, silk-smooth parquet floors, three elevators, 16 bathrooms, and new paint, new cur- tains, new draperies, as well as its price less old antiques and paintings...
...prince has never given up his pursuit of those pleasures. As a dapper, rakish fin de siècle student at the Sorbonne, he got the nickname Cur Non (Why Not?) because of his debonair pursuit of food and fun. (He added the "sky" a few years later when the Czar's fine fleet came to visit France.) In 1921, already famed as a gourmet, he began to write his masterpiece, France Gastronomique, in 28 volumes. "When you're searching for good places to eat in provincial towns," wrote Curnonsky, "see the doctors, the cabdrivers and the priests...
...road toward Mount Ida, two trucks overturned. Nine beasts scampered into Ouachita National Forest. A pursuing posse brought down one of two escaped leopards and recaptured a tame black bear and a rhesus monkey. The other leopard prowled all night before being tracked down by a small but heroic cur named Tony, whose owner, Roiston Fair, shot the leopard, but not before it had killed Tony. Still in the forest: a polar bear, a black bear, three monkeys...
Dean Bender's letter describes the Administrative Board's deliberations as striking "a proper balance between a realistic judgment of the probable results of the Council's proposal, if it were accepted, and our confidence in the decency and responsibility of most Harvard students and cur traditional policy of granting them as much freedom as possible to order their own lives." It seems that the confidence and traditional policy were outweighed by the consequences of a minor adjustment to a changed social situation. That changed situation has been recognized by the administrations of women's colleges, by other...
...with a quiet, sensitive portrayal of a woman who has a fairly rational enjoyment of life. But Lenormand is out to get her, too. Miss Ford is a fine actress, and it is not her fault that the sincerity of her performance forces her to whine like a whipped cur with a post-nasal drip for long stretches toward the end of the play...