Word: exclaims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highest office; yet he always thought of the presidency as a "dread responsibility." He was a politician without a politician's ways; instead of grinning gamely when, during one of his campaigns, a little girl handed him a stuffed baby alligator, Stevenson could only gape and exclaim, "For Christ's sake, what's this?" He was a man of rare humor, often expressed in self-deprecating terms. Responding to criticism that he was too intellectual, that he talked over the heads of the voters, he tossed out a Latinism: Via ovum cranium difficilis...
...balls; a Scotch-sodden thatch of mustache, and, of course, those two front teeth, gaping wide as Becher's Brook. Wherever he takes a stroll, from Soho to Sunset Boulevard, Terry-Thomas is stopped by little old ladies who ask him to smile. When he obliges, they always exclaim: "It's real...
...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...