Word: frowned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unfortunate, since they sometimes eat their young. To brief her five-year-olds on the principal anatomical discrepancy between boys and girls, Mrs. Daniels conducts a bisexual expedition into the school men's room to give them a clue from the urinals-though purists in sex education frown on any association of elimination with...
...vignettes of trout fishing in Germany and the "king business" in Europe. Some of that early stuff was basic Hemingway: clear as glass. He attended a prestigious press conference given by Benito Mussolini. Il Duce "sat at his desk reading a book. His face was contorted into the famous frown. He was registering Dictator . . . and he remained absorbed in his book ... I tiptoed over be hind him to see what the book was he was reading with such avid interest. It was a French-English dictionary -held upside down...
...cannot understand why some officers of the Republican Club frown upon all association with SDS. SDS violated our system's basic political rules when it physically detained McNamara, but if SDS feels that the Vietnamese war is genocide, such actions are not entirely irresponsible...
...trustees of Colorado Woman's College could have been pardoned a worried frown a fortnight ago when Denver Millionaire Temple Hoyne Buell went to dinner at Manhattan's Caravelle restaurant with Columbia University President Grayson Kirk, a smooth fund raiser currently rounding up $200 million from the likes of Alumnus Buell. Instead, the Colorado trustees smiled knowingly and two days later announced that Buell and his wife Virginia had given the college $25 million, plus broad hints of more to come...
...policy in Latin America is to encourage democratic governments and frown on military coups. That policy is, however, leavened by a considerable amount of pragmatism. And so it was that last week, after 18 days of icy reserve, Washington formally recognized the military government that had toppled Argentina's President Arturo Illia...