Word: discreeter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though she plans to wage a man-to-man battle with Claiborne Pell, who so far has kept a discreet silence, Colonel Briggs also has the little extras of her sex going for her. When a woman in a store, mistaking the colonel for a supervisor, asked, "Do you have a lemon squeezer?" Colonel Briggs quickly introduced herself, said: "I have two, and if you can't find one I'll be glad to send you one of mine." And, though the colonel has promised to stick to the issues, she is woman enough to admit that...
...natural matador will concentrate harder when he returns to the circuit, while the man out for money alone will lose his nerve. Once wounded, Miguelin begins to suffer from dreams and fantasies of death. The camera, which before had recorded the full spectacle of the bull-fight from a discreet distance, focuses directly on Miguelin and the bull as, for the first time, he realizes that he and the beast are alone in the ring...
Sheer Frustration. Unlike the affluent and aggressive contact men maintained in Washington by business and labor, the discreet university lobbyists are less concerned with shaping new legislation than with helping their schools take advantage of laws already on the books. Typical of these college representatives is Mark Ferber, 36, a Ph. D. in political science from U.C.L.A., who represents the nine campuses of the University of California. Ferber defines his job as mainly "just reading bills and advising the university on what effect they will have." Rowan Wakefield, who represents the State University of New York and its 58 branches...
...Quiet, please," announced the assistant director in discreet, nicely modulated tones. Griped a nearby veteran American technician: "If we were in Hollywood, he'd be saying 'Shaddup!' " But it was not a Hollywood sound stage they were on last week. It was a picturesque, narrow street in the ancient Wiltshire village of Castle Combe, which was also cluttered with sound trucks, mobile generators, scriptmen, Actor Anthony Newley, giant arc lamps that almost topped the moss-grown roofs of the cottages, and a herd of wondering, chattering villagers pressed against the chicken-wire fence, hastily constructed to keep...
Before the crusade began, the British press had mostly been amusedly contemptuous of the venture, joshing Billy in editorial cartoons. After Billy's opening-night sermon, his notices improved somewhat. "Hellfire occupies the same discreet place in his theology as it does in most current versions of Christianity," marveled the Daily Telegraph. While the refined may shudder at Billy's lowbrow mass-appeal methods, declared the Times, "new and potent techniques of persuasion are there to be used for either good or ill. And a church which comprehends pop services and ton-up* parsons has no cause...