Word: frown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real love." Everyone nodded in agreement. A small, dark man who, I later learned, was a psychiatrist, tried to explain. "The only difference between our behavior here and behavior in other countries is that we face the facts," he said. "Young people sleep together everywhere. We don't frown and tell them that it is sinful and expect that that will prevent it. Since they're going to do it anyway, we try to give them training and teach them to be honest. If a girl finds she's going to have a baby...
...Lorelei was a danger to be feared. You are not." In the album an enthusiastic British audience claps, cheers and laughs along with the performer, suggesting that beyond the bored and enigmatic smile of the screen Marlene. there is a skilled and warm variety artist who can pout, frown, tease, worry, smile and flirt in a constant kaleidoscope of expression...
Rebecca West, firm, formidable, and possessed of a frown like a side of the Grand Canyon, likes to see her nouns buttressed by stout adjectives like "fatuous," "obscene" and "idiotic"; even "bitchery" is in her vocabulary. At worst, her hardbitten prose is that of an obsessive governess threatening children with hellfire; at best, it expresses an energetic mind absorbed in the pursuit of common sense and justice. In A Train of Powder Author West examines with Old Testament sternness some recent efforts to bring malefactors before...
...that's something." Next day the Eisenhower family went to the Abilene cemetery to look at the graves of the President's parents. David Jacob and Ida Stover Eisenhower. The plain granite headstone marked "Eisenhower" was surrounded by dry, brown grass, and a worried frown crossed Ike's face. "Can't we do something about this old buffalo grass?" he asked...
...make a mistake. Johnson finally obliged. In the 14th, he backed carelessly into a corner. Instantly, Moore moved in. Johnson took a short, straight right to the jaw, spun half around as if looking for help and sank to the canvas. He was up at five. The furious frown that the challenger had been wearing was gone now; in its place was an empty grin. Two vicious punches from Moore and even the grin faded. The fight was over...