Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silly-sickening newsreel of Reichs-kanzler Hitler at his first Cabinet meeting, bowing obsequiously to Von Papen, making cheesy smiles and cute little wriggles of politeness, playing Alphonse to Göring's Gaston over who sits in what chair and, in general, looking like a whey-faced, flabby postal clerk ill at ease in the company of his betters...
...animals take the spotlight only because of the way they become involved with it. The common theme that unifies the two films is the ways society can stifle and destroy the natural goodness of life. Needless to say, when natural goodness first appears, it is wagging its cute little tail...
...public schools are opened to all pupils." This was dismissed with a smirk: "Then came the hedge." The sum of TIME'S account was in the snickering quip: "Not later, but not now." My question is: Does TIME report the facts honestly or twist them to secure a cute caption? Perhaps a more profound question could be asked: Did TIME read the pastoral letters, and if so, why were they not reported fairly...
...view mirror or whitewalls without charge. Salesmen find that men make most of the car-buying decisions, but let wives pick color and interior. A salesman knows that he has a man trapped when a wife stands back, looks fondly at a car and gurgles: "Isn't that cute!" To get the customer into the showroom in the first place, dealers often use "bird dogs"-barbers, service-station operators, or friends who for a fee tip them on car hunters. Less rewarding are "cold spears" -telephone contacts taken from a list of state auto registrations or from telephone books...
Eclairs & Aquabesques. There are almost innumerable opportunities in this story for a writer to turn cute, but Author Maxwell resists the temptation. He writes about animals and nature as well as anyone in the field, and he is never cloying when he describes how Mij toused like a dog with his favorite rubber eclair, lay endlessly on his back juggling anything that came to paw, or hid underneath the rug and then leaped out like a tiger on the first passerby...