Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refreshing to learn that the destiny of this nation is being partially guided through the complexities of the atomic age by one who can evaluate character by "pressing the flesh and looking them in the eye." Dinosaurs, move over...
...roam the "bopping clubs," the teen-age street-fighting gangs. They call themselves Centurians, Demons, Villains, Stonekillers and Sand Street Angels, organize themselves with the precision of military combat teams, with an officer hierarchy (president, war counselor, armorer, etc.). Their code of ethics is a distorted boy's-eye view of the underworld, laced with real touches of bravado and evil that are gleaned from television and the movies-and from relatives who have firsthand experience. They prowl the dark streets, kill and maim one another, dabble in narcotics, drink themselves into a rage with cheap wine called "sneaky...
Pile & Putter. While Lucy moves into the dressing room that Ginger Rogers once occupied as queen of RKO and keeps an eye on the commissary (she hates "bad studio food"), Desi will reign in an oak-and-leather throne room, surrounded by deep pile, a disappearing bar, and a putter alongside the desk. The new Hollywood tycoon is already awakening echoes of older ones. As workmen remodeled buildings for directors, producers and writers, he said: "Those cubbyholes were no good. Our offices are going to be twice that size. These are creative people, and creative people gotta have room...
...When the Communist Party was at its peak in the U.S. [80,000 in 1944], it was stronger in numbers than the Soviet Party was at the time it seized power in Russia." Hoover has followed the course of American Communism with the wary devotion of a seething-eye dog. From the time (1919) when he was asked to write a special report on U.S. Communism for the Attorney General, he has not changed but enlarged his mind...
Ceiling Limited. In Arlington, Va., a first-grader entering the Washington Post's "Favorite Teacher" essay contest was full of praise for his Miss Davis, added with an eye on next year: "I wish she was smart enough to teach second grade...