Word: dour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...windup of the National People's Congress in Peking last week, a new Chairman of the Republic took office: dour, self-effacing Liu Shao-chi (see box). With the announcement, Peking's vast Square of Heavenly Peace resounded to the beating of gongs, the clash of cymbals, the rataplan of exploding firecrackers. Demonstrators marched 110 abreast in a swirl of red banners and colored scarves. The usually gloomy and provincial streets blazed with electric lights strung on eaves and curving roofs; red stars and neon signs shone against the night sky; big, pumpkin-shaped lanterns dangled from...
...chattiest of the word warriors is intimately known to dour Cinemactor James Mason, who for years has been famed offstage for a sort of stunned silence. It was not one of Mason's fifteen cats that got his tongue. Every day, when she rises from her noon bath in their Beverly Hills mansion, his wife, coruscant Pamela Mason, 42, begins talking with the literate sting of a Parisian presiding over her salon. An old friend, Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson, says: "She talks like a woman who was born analyzed. She is happily malicious...
...tremendously pleased to see the picture of my father, Representative Howard W. Smith of Va., on the cover of TIME [Feb. 2]. However, I am weary of the same old adjectives used to describe this wonderful, complex man. "Dour," "doleful," "lanky," "bushy-browed," "wintry-eyed," and sometimes worse! I think it's time the public knew the other side of Howard Smith's nature...
...leader to be TIME'S Man of the Year. Since then, Africa has been making history on its own, awakening the rest of the world to Africa's own awakening. TIME cover stories illustrate the way the story has developed. In 1952 there was Daniel Malan, the dour Boer Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, who died last week, out to keep what he regarded as the inferior black majority of his countrymen in permanent subjection. After him came the face of Black Africa nationalism- Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah...
...atomic warfare, the problems of Christians in non-Christian countries), "provided that the Vatican is willing to admit and accept dogmatic differences." In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury indicated that the Anglican Church would send an observer, if invited, but a spokesman for the Presbyterian Church of Scotland was dour. "We are very keen on the ecumenical movement," he said, "but not under Roman Catholic sponsorship. We want a union of Christendom, but not on their terms...