Word: fobbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lindsay has been a visible, courageous chief executive who is always willing to put his prestige on the line for what he believes is right. His frequent television appearances, the heavy coverage of his activities in the newspapers, his refusal to fob off responsibilities on others, have invited personal blame for whatever goes wrong...
...size, sumptuosity, style and snob appeal, this resplendent volume wins any 1967 publisher's award for conspicuous taste. Suggested prize: a gold-trimmed watch-fob-cigar-cutter holder in champagne-tanned platypus pouch. Avoiding today's exhaustive and exhausting travel writing, this volume combines 18th century illustrations with prose from the past. The travelers' tales date from the period when English was at its best and travel did not exclude wonder, awe, respect-and suspicion. "The first thing an Englishman does on going abroad is to find fault with what is French, because it is not English...
...daring to dream of putting his daughter's life before Greek victory. This raises a question of moral ambiguity that runs through the play: Is this a war for a strumpet, or is it against a nest of barbarians who threaten the life of Greece? Euripides refuses to fob off the playgoer with an easy answer, for the question is fraught with pain and death...
Cloistered Eliot House has only one entrance. The House Committee has to struggle each year to obtain Finley's permission to leave open a gate leading to Memorial Drive. The main archway is guarded, fittingly enough, by a superintendent in a three-piece suit with a gold watch fob. Within this protective and comfortable setting, Finley has become a self-conscious anachronism who, though he may sound like a broken gramaphone at times, serves an important and colorful function as a symbol of Harvard past. He enjoys the role. "I sometimes see myself as a tree under which the arcadia...
...faithful. "It's all right," said John. "I've got a new face now." The new face looked absolutely naked, but he figures that his mop will be normally back to seed in a month or two. Meantime, he might travel incognito for a change, or fob himself off as Peter Sellers...