Word: deadheading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the moment Trouper Verdon turns plain Essie into a glittering song-and-dance girl, Redhead stops being deadhead. Her articulate hands, toes and torso are parts of speech and her lines are more pleasing than the script's. Her body is an erotic spoof spelling sex in quotes, as she overtilts a wayward hip or dislocates an amorous shoulder; in marathon-long dances, the stage is her keyboard, and she never hits a wrong note. Under the bravura assurance lies an endearing Chaplinesque poignance. Smiles of delight cross the wistful, wide-eyed Verdon face, like sudden dawns. Eager...
...railroaders, the U.S. commuter is a deadhead who does not pay his way. Even worse, he is now one out of every two passengers-and last year U.S. passenger traffic went $700 million in the hole. Railroaders have howled for years about commuter losses. But now, they insist, the losses have brought on a rail crisis. Last month the New Haven Railroad announced that it had a $15 million passenger deficit in 1956, asked for outright commuter subsidies from the states. Last week the New York Central, moaning that it is losing nearly $30 million a year on commuters, sued...
...office. Abruptly, he is buried under freshly picked nits.' "Kay," he whispers, "you've got the wrong man. I can't change the world." Her reply: "You can change your life, Humph, you can show them all that a civil servant isn't necessarily a deadhead...
...than any French Premier since De Gaulle. Here was a man who bluntly announced what he thought France should do, demanded authority to do it, and acted as if he meant to carry it out. After years of trimming and timidity, Mendès-France had struck off the deadhead of France's postwar malaise-immo bilisme. Whether his 30-day gamble gamble is won or lost, the French people had found in Mendès-France something that had long been denied them-leadership...
Weekends are no problem for the freeloader or deadhead as he is often termed. There are always parties on weekends, and the experienced moocher has more possibilities than he can take care of. During the week itself, however, an entire day will often go by without a drink caged from an unsuspecting host...