Word: dour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abstract. Perhaps the most impressive of the lot was an austere Crucifix by Ponomarew Szekely, in which Christ was symbolized by no more than an abstract pattern carved into, and subtly complementing, the face of the Cross. But the majority of the works on exhibition proved to be as dour as St.-Sulpice was sweet. In struggling to be different, the contributing artists succeeded mainly in seeming strange...
...second-game crowd was still talking about Dusty's homer, when it settled back to watch the Giants play like champions. At third dour Hank Thompson made acrobatic, circus saves with astonishing skill; at shortstop Alvin Dark, a hard-looking old pro out of Louisiana State, knocked down everything that came his way. Slowly, with infuriating care, young Johnny Antonelli pitched around the thin edge of disaster. In the fifth, Pinch Hitter Rhodes sneaked a piddling blooper into short centerfield and the game was as good as over...
...brides were not so hot, but their mistresses were every bit as toothsome as the ginger fritters. Such a dish was Katherine de Roet, the daughter of an obscure herald. She had scarcely settled down at the court of Edward III when she was nearly raped by a dour Saxon knight. The gay John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, later prominent in Shakespeare ("Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee"), rescued Katherine and saw her safely married to the knight. But soon John, too, was panting after her. Eventually, she presented John with four bouncing bastards...
...Baltimore, dour Paul Richards, who led the Chicago White Sox out of the wilderness of the American League's second division in 1951 and has kept them in third place ever since, was named general manager and field manager of the moulting Orioles (née the St. Louis Browns). Richards' successor in, Chicago: mild Marty ("Mr. Shortstop'') Marion, who flopped with the Browns...
...come under heavy attack from Bevan's left-wing supporters at the Labor Party conference at Scarborough late this month. If Attlee did not go, Nye would appear the anointed apostle of peace, bringing fair-sounding pledges from Malenkov and Mao. And Bevan could paint Attlee as the dour and unpopular proponent of "Guns for the Huns" who refused...