Word: drawbacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Savage-beautiful, talented, unpredictable. His father, Max Town, was one of the world's most famous writers. Dickie saw dad's pictures in the papers; his novels were everywhere; and everything he said was taken seriously by serious people throughout the world. But there was one great drawback to being the son of Naomi and Max: they were not married and never had been...
Last week, just 14 days after weighing anchor in the Gironde River, the crew of the cutter Lord Jim brought their craft up the Thames. All was well at last, with only one minor drawback-of all the bottles carefully laid away in Lord Jim's lockers, only ten still contained wine. "Ah, well," mused Guitarist de Castelbajac, as his captain faced London's vintners with somewhat empty hands, "some wine, it just does not travel...
...Theatre Workshop scored a minor triumph Thursday with its presentation of Gregory Corso's In This Hung-up Age. That the author cannot take any credit for originality of situation--six passengers and Beauty stranded on a brokendown bus in the middle of the desert--is no drawback in this case. The language of his characters is fast, vigorous, and funny, and the denouement is grotesquely original. In the cast, Fred Mueller as the Apache, Harry Bingham as the Hipster, James Rieger as the Poetman, and Earle Edgerton as the Tourist are superb caricatures, while Clare Fooshee and Mary MacGregor...
...will be completely equipped with them by mid-1956. Included in the total: 35 all-chair cars, seating 67 passengers apiece, six diners, six dome lounge cars. While the height (15 ft. 6 in.) will cut speed on the bends, Santa Fe feels that on long-distance runs that drawback is offset by less noise and vibration...
...always telling jokes? Well, he is a homely fellow and tries to compensate for this drawback by entertaining people with jokes. Compensation is the defense mechanism by which one tries to make up for an inferiority by striving to gain recognition is some other sphere. The inferiority may be real or imagined...