Word: foil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oval face, pale as a Siberian snowfall, and his nose is straight and narrow-bridged. When he smiles, a thin upper lip edges high to reveal a set of glistening teeth and a flash of gold, and little lines creep round his fleshy face and forehead like crinkled aluminum foil. His wide, short neck is well-proportioned to fit his wide-shouldered chest and broad stomach. In his jovial moments he bellows; at his most earnest his voice modulates softly and melodiously. He changes his expression in a flicker; impressing the curious stranger, his small, blue-grey eyes grow bluer...
Uive Kitzinger, politics don at Nuffield College, Oxford, provded a friendly foil for a summary of current Labour Party policies by Reg Prentice, a Labour MP. Both agreed that division of sentiment within the parties had caused the rapid quieting of the constitutional din following Suez...
...only the author's second attempt at tragedy, the play is at times literarily self-conscious and structurally too obvious in its symmetrical balance. Every idea has its complement: love vs. hate, day vs. night, patience vs. impetuosity, chastity vs. bawdry, and so on. Every character has its foil: Romeo and Mercutio, Juliet and Roasline, Benvolio and Tybalt, Friar Laurence and the Nurse. If it is not a supreme achievement, it is still a great play; and let us be thankful we have...
Most obvious upsurge in aluminum is consumer packaging, where the metal is being used for aerosol cans, carrying-cases for soft drinks, keeping beer cool (an aluminum foil laminated can) and covering detergent boxes. Alcoa predicts that aluminum packaging applications, which accounted for 227 million Ibs. last year, will grow to 400 million...
Reel Three: Coleman's political opponents were already making hay out of his FBI call, and the Wilkins statement was material for their hayrakes. "Wilkins gave Coleman a nice bouquet of roses wrapped in gold foil," cried State Democratic Chairman Bidwell Adam, charging that Coleman wanted "to sew up the 25,000 Negro votes." Barred by law from another term, Coleman is backing Lieutenant Governor Carroll Gartin. But in the aftermath of the Parker case, amid strong rumors that the FBI would have the killers this week, Coleman's support of Gartin was less than an asset. Said...