Word: exterior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vasily Stalin. 105. "The exterior, like the simple housing around a complicated turbine (said an awed friend) , covers 'the great est piece of mental machinery I have ever known.' " 1.John Foster Dulles...
...neglect" or "filthy." (Webster's definition of squalid). On the contrary, we are sure that we have some of the most attractive rooms the college has to offer. Some of them have been repainted and re-wallpapered this year. New carpeting has been put on the stairs. The entire exterior of the building has been repainted, and an improved telephone system is soon to be installed. Some of the emergency doubles here are even larger than in the brick dormitories. We personally are so satisfied with our rooms that we prefer them to most of those that we have seen...
Years of slugging away at the boxing racket have taught moviemakers how to put across this kind of message with less hokum than any other. They have learned how to roughen up a slick exterior, how to use documentary techniques to set up scenes of tough, unglamorized action. The camera moves fast, nervously picking out detail: a monstrous fullback sauntering innocently away from an opponent he has just maimed; the ground rushing up toward a runner who has been blocked once too often; a scattering of hired athletes at a fraternity dance, each as distinct from the eager fraters...
...from My Cradle." Flaubert was right about Maupassant, but he suffered from excesses of his own. At 25, he wrote with the weariness of a septuagenarian: "Beneath my youthful exterior lies a strange senility. I do not know what it was that made me old from my cradle, and disgusted me with happiness even before I had tasted...
Once during World War II, an outraged associate of Dulles' described the behavior of the Japanese as "unforgivable." "Christ teaches us," replied Dulles, "that nothing is unforgivable." The unaffected remark laid bare one part of his character. It is a complex character behind its grey, pedagogic exterior. The exterior, like the simple housing around a complicated turbine (said an awed friend), covers "the greatest piece of mental machinery I have ever known." God and the turbine produced the Japanese Treaty. A preacher and a diplomat produced John Foster Dulles...