Word: flushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want - something solid to disbelieve in. Peter Cowley's faith is unshaken. Modern man, he concludes, knows too much for his own good. Too sophisticated for miracles, he must find his way to grace through such hoary maxims as "Love one another." To give that wan truism the flush of a bold truth, Novelist Buechner's drawing-room tragedy would have to glow with forthright eloquence; it shimmers with frosty, neo-Jamesian elegance instead...
...become clear. For all the tremendous good it had wrought, U.S. rule had recognized old Spanish land grants, many of them dubious, which gave a few favored families a stranglehold. Free trade with the U.S. had given the Philippines the bloom of apparent health, but it was a hectic flush: the islands were not prepared to stand on their own economic feet. The sugar kings and wealthy traders had prospered, but thousands of tenant farmers were left in discontented peonage. The seed of freedom had sprouted, but the soil of order on which freedom must grow had been neglected. Above...
Both of the boxes must fit flush with the sides of the still, say the local distillers, most of whom have gone underground. Cut the boxes from the tin can, following the plans closely. You will have to drill a large hole in the mash container, to accomodate that bottle-looking thing, which, indeed, is a bottle. A small medicine bottle, the pill kind, is supposed to make the best bottle for this still. If you haven't got a drill large enough for that size hole, drill smaller holes around and then file out. Drill, file; drill, file; drill...
...crowd, least of all Louis, saw what was coming. And no 'one in the crowd, even the most rabid of Rocky's fans, really wanted to see it. In the eighth, a solid left hook, thrown wildly from Marciano's awkward, hunched crouch, caught Joe flush on the jaw and sent him tumbling to the canvas. Louis had been knocked down in other bouts, and each time he had come up fighting. He did this time too, but there was no sting left to his blows, nothing to make a man back down before his attack. Rocky...
Modest Yes. Faulkner lets Temple tell most of the story in confessional flashbacks. To set her sordid saga in symbolic perspective, however, he flanks dramatic dialogue with three incantatory prose sections. Flush with rhetoric and folk humor, these evoke what Faulkner himself calls "the vast splendid limitless panorama of America." They also invoke the high codes and courage Faulkner associates with the Old South, in this case the founders of Jefferson, Miss, in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, seat of Faulkner's fictional kingdom. The Temple Drakes, the Gowan Stevenses and their slack-spined, country-clubbing breed have corrupted these codes...