Word: dour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other readers of a less dour turn of mind thought that the campaign was a first-rate contribution and should be continued indefinitely. They even suggested subjects for future series of advertisements (e.g., recreation: to show how advertising has helped the mass production of movies, sporting goods, etc.). Still another wrote as follows: "Your series is well directed toward making economic points, but does not do the job it should in highlighting the peculiarly democratic political contribution of advertising. You could have shown that but for advertisers there would be no free press . . . On this score it would have been...
...into sexy, curiously unreal oils. His lamplit fisherwomen did not look like the sort that go near the water. Their hot peach flesh was set off by black garters and contrasted with the cold rose, blue and gold of the gasping fish. In the background of the composition, a dour old crone hugged a rigid...
Instead of manners based on privilege, the British, he said, have devised a new set of manners based on rights. There is "dour deference for the first comer, the man at the head of the queue." A "ritual of the queue" has evolved, in which women take part with stock phrases like "This lady was before me, I think," and "Would you keep my place...
...track down the broadcasters of these titillating messages, Belgian police were patrolling the back roads of rural Limburg last week in small trucks loaded with apparatus for locating secret transmitters. But the dour, closemouthed Flemish farmers were as uncooperative as they were in the wartime days when the Gestapo hunted for Belgian underground radio operators...
Even wholehearted P.V.O. assistance may be too late for Burma's tottering government. A recent government amnesty offer has brought in only a handful of Karens. Said one dour Burman official, "It looks as if the Karens want all Burma for their separate state...