Word: exclaimers
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...Rhome's standards, that was a horrible day. Oklahoma State boasted the nation's second-best pass defense before it ran into Tulsa in October Rhome hit on 35 of 43 for 488 yds.' and moved an awestruck pro scout to exclaim: "We couldn't complete that many if we were only playing catch." Against the University of Louisville, Rhome threw seven touchdown passes; against Houston, he threw one that traveled a fantastic 60 yds. in the air. In Tulsa's ten games (eight wins, two losses) this season, Rhome has completed...
...cello is upon us." Lacking the glamour or flashy attraction of the piano and violin, the cello has been a neglected child in the family of strings. France's Jean Louis Duport revolutionized playing techniques in the late 1700s, an achievement that prompted Voltaire to exclaim: "A miracle! An ox has been changed into a nightingale...
...even at its most innocent, the trait lends "a theatrical quality which enhances but slightly distorts all values." From here it is but a step to the "polite lies and flattery," still well-intentioned, which Italians use to make life more agreeable. "Tailors praise your build. Dentists exclaim: 'You have the teeth of an ancient Roman!' The doctor cannot help remarking that he has rarely encountered an influenza as baffling as yours." Even speedometers "are made to lie in Italy for your happiness, " set to read 10% ahead of the actual speed "to make you feel proud...
This summer as never before, Americans are realizing that to most of the world's population the U.S. is "abroad," a strange land for tourists to goggle at, write home about, and exclaim over in their incomprehensible tongues. In 1964 more than 300,000 Frenchmen, Germans, English, Italians, Russians and Japanese - not counting students, government officials, 5,000,000 Canadians and 260,000 Mexicans - are expected to visit the U.S. This amounts to an in crease of 31,491 over the influx last year and about a 77% gain over 1960. "The U.S. vacation," says a London travel agent...
...came that one of his favorite devices was to stand before the audience, wave a copy of the civil rights bill and shout, "Do you see this bill? Have you read it? Do you know what it says?" With hardly any listeners having read the bill, he could then exclaim, "Well, I'll tell you what it says!" and proceed to distort the truth...