Word: flattering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action hinges on the efforts of a plain girl's father and brothers to find her a husband before she reaches the no-takers age. Lizzie (Inga Swenson) knows as much as any man, but she scorns what every woman is supposed to know-how to flutter, flatter, bewilder and bewitch...
...because the truths are all on our side." In spite of this tendency, U.S. defense install-ations remain major sources of irritation, though even here, he claims, the Japanese are gradually realizing that defense may be necessary, after all. Still, it is not uncommon for "throngs of Communists to flatter me by giving me attention and yelling 'Reischauer go home...
...because the truths are all on our side." In spite of this tendency, U.S. defense installations remain major sources of irritation. But even here, he claims, the Japanese are gradually realizing that defense may be necessary, after all. Still, it is not uncommon, however, for "throngs of Communists to flatter me by giving me attention and yelling 'Reischauer go home...
...fact that even Homer described all this in a flatter manner hardly disturbs Arrowsmith's co-editors, who include D. S. Carne-Ross, 40, onetime BBC editor, and John Sullivan, 32, a transplanted Oxford don who recently won a $1,000 prize as the best teacher at Texas. They view translation as reseeing and refeeling of structure and meaning. Carne-Ross argues: "The translator's job is to get inside the text, to work his way through the words and relive the informing experience which lies behind them." Poet Logue has done just that for The Iliad, says...
...years she has bought all her clothes at Mainbocher, with the exception of a dress or two she may pick up in Paris. Mainbocher, the classicist of simple lines and uncluttered elegance at stratospheric prices, and Ceezee were made for each other; her bright coloring and trim figure flatter his clothes, while their understated chic expresses Ceezee inside as well as outside...