Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divergent operational concepts of modern-day Christianity: Graham's concern for the individual soul and the council's stress on involvement with the world. To many, these approaches have seemed opposites; the mere fact of Gra ham's invitation and acceptance was a bit of an eyebrow raiser. But Graham neatly managed to synthesize his own modified views and the council's: he said that social action is essential - and that it must proceed from genuine "spiritual motivation...
...liberal eyebrow arches at these goings-on, and the liberal finger is quick to point at sly ol' LBJ as prime mover in the proceedings. The truth is that the Administration didn't dare ask for a specific long-term appropriation, what with the Vietnam War and the Great Society, and indications are that the bureaucracy is every bit as surprised as the rest...
...anthropology at the top of his voice. Audibility can make for large audiences, and Ardrey has enjoyed them since publication of African Genesis (TIME, Dec. 15, 1961), his first solo expedition into man's past. In that book, on evidence that would arch any cautious anthropologist's eyebrow, Ardrey proved to his own satisfaction that man is a born killer. He toyed with some other revolutionary evolutionary notions too, but he lacked either the time or the background to push them with suitable evangelical zeal. That required another book, and this...
...girl lived in punishing pain. Sometimes a child died of gangrene or blood poisoning. At last, the foot was reduced to what foot fanciers called a "golden lotus"-a pale grub of flesh about four inches long, less than an inch wide, and arched "like a lady's eyebrow...
...operation was a success. For five rounds, while Cooper lunged awkwardly about the outdoor ring, Clay concentrated his attack on Henry's left eyebrow. By the end of the fifth, Cooper's forehead was pink and swollen, and in the sixth it turned bright crimson. Lashing out with a classic one-two combination, Cassius opened up a gash so bloody one awed onlooker insisted that Cooper must be a bar-sinister Alfonso. The referee stopped the fight at 1 min. 38 sec. of the sixth round, and no more than a minute later Champion Clay was already announcing...