Word: epithets
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...quit after objecting to "the aura of mystery.") Minute Women boasted they had planted observers in University of Houston classrooms to watch out for controversial material and teachers. "A new meaning," wrote Reporter O'Leary, "has been given to the word controversial ... It now often becomes a derogatory epithet, frequently synonymous with the word Communist...
Britain, once proud of the epithet "a nation of shopkeepers." is in danger of becoming a nation of barbiturate addicts. At least, so thinks Sir Heneage Ogilvie, one of its most eminent surgeons. About one-tenth of all the 200 million prescriptions written annually by the doctors in the National Health Service are for barbiturates. Half the 545 suicides in 1951 were committed with barbiturates...
...Parliament, Laborite Maurice Edelman asked whether or not supporters of sponsored TV were on the side of the chimp. Fourteen vice chancellors of universities protested against commercial TV. In a lot of British papers, U.S. commercial TV became an epithet almost as dirty as "McCarthyism...
...facial expression earned too much contempt and not enough amusement. Finally, Stevens took Cook aside for a whispered moment. When the camera turned again, Cook read his line: "You're a no-good, lying Yankee-and a sonofabitch too!" Stevens got his take, and the extra epithet was merely cut out of the sound track later. At other imes, Stevens is willing to sacrifice realism for graceful movement. As an ex-cameraman, he knows that a man getting off a horse looks better than a man mounting one; thus, he has been known to shoot his actor dismounting...
...were on stage to attest the honesty of Bey's performance spent the ten minutes of his "airless interment" accusing the manager of fraud. He replied that they were all "unbelievers," and when Bey "returned from the grave" and distributed talismans to "ward of evil," the manager's epithet was quite valid. Those who saw the performance from the stage went away unbelieving...