Word: eyebrowed
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...crammed with populous, colloquial Jewish life. Most of the characters are credible: they haggle over fish, are starved or stuffed, often pray, sometimes forsake their faith, sometimes commit suicide. But occasionally Aleichem takes off from reality, and then he is at his best. He tells of people with one eyebrow black and the other white, who cut up a sofa to make a fiddle, whose goats change sex, whose clocks strike 13, who drink so much they catch fire inside and burn to death...
...Reno, where gambling is legal, nobody raised an eyebrow when the university's president accepted. Students with scruples about it can apply for one of the eight scholarships from the Reno Woman's Christian Temperance Union instead. But the W.C.T.U. scholarships pay only...
...ineffective A. F. of L. International Seamen's Union and went C.I.O., they made big Joe Curran top seadog in their aggressive new union. N.M.U. rank & filers had long had a noticeable list to port: some belonged to dockside cells of the Communist Party. No one lifted an eyebrow when a bunch of Commies marched up the gangplank with big Joe, and took officers' quarters...
Moscow's air-conditioned political climate stayed steady as a glacier. Moscow's millions raised no visible eyebrow, spoke no audible comment on Generalissimo Stalin's blast at ex-Prime Minister Winston Churchill...
Maurice Chevalier, still singing in a slanted hat, sharp tux and cocked eyebrow, and still France's No. 1 music-hall darling, set himself for a round-the-hemisphere tour in a one-man show. The greying song-&-dance man would tour the Alps first, then go to Buenos Aires and Rio, then hop to Canada. Then, if his plans panned out, he would do a coast-to-coast tour...