Word: frightfully
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...pungent social observer. His girls are garbed in the hip gear of today's pelvic underground: miniskirts, black leather vests and striped stockings. They lick ice cream cones but seldom smile. They are exotic exaggerations, vinyl Venuses in modern Threepenny Opera costumes, flagrant in their red fright wigs and monster cupid lips. His portrait of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim has her decked out in butterfly sunglasses with bare breasts to boot...
...equipment move freely into the Saigon area along infiltration trails from the Mekong Delta to the south and by motorized sampan along the Saigon River from the north. Eight Viet Cong battalions operate within a radius of 25 miles of the capital, extorting food, supplies and money from fright ened merchants and others among greater Saigon's 2,200,000 population...
That should have been enough to terrify Michigan State-except that the Spartans were too busy running around in their own fright wigs. They beat Indiana 37-19 for their ninth straight, thereby setting the scene for what looks like the college football game of the decade. Despite the fact that the clash will be televised in the Northeast, Midwest and Southwest (occasioning protests from 30,000 fans in other areas who want to see it too), every one of the 76,000 seats in Spartan Stadium has been sold out since last July...
...Peoples' Party, the majority party since the Socialists' defeat in last spring's elections, charged them with inciting the workers in "an old trade union tactic tied up with the current demand for higher wages." A leading Austrian author contends that the whole Habsburg fright reflects "the inferiority complex of republicans in a republic, an inner insecurity." After his trip, Otto, now 53 and living near Munich, said that he wished to establish a "precedent" for his right to travel in Austria. Wistfully, he added: "It was the journey of a man who loves his homeland although...
...movie world hierarchy. A young junior exec on the scene at the time, I was recruited to give a five-minute performance under green grease paint, but without rehearsal or direction. It was the golden opportunity for an aspiring actor, but I flunked it completely because of stage fright. Mr. Sarnoff kept me in the doghouse from then...