Word: frowningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them from cheaper foreign oil. Such regulatory groups as the Texas Railroad Commission make a concerted effort to prevent flooded markets by limiting production (a method that has prevented any real oil glut in the U.S.), thus in effect helping to keep up prices. The foreign oil-producing nations frown on price cuts, which nip at oil profits. Venezuela recently stopped three U.S. independents from selling Lake Maracaibo crude at $1.50 to $2 per bbl. when the posted price...
...employees of Alfred A. (for Abraham) Knopf, a publisher with the appearance and manner of a retired Cossack sergeant, recall that on the frequent occasions when Knopf was displeased, he would rumble: "If this keeps up, I'm going to sell to Bennett Cerf." At last, without a frown, Knopf has sold. The price, according to Random House President Cerf: in the neighborhood of 135,000 shares of Random House stock, worth roughly $3,000,000. Knopf and his wife Blanche, an aloof, astringent woman who is the firm's president (her husband is chairman), will still...
Mikoyan's mustached smile turned to an angry frown as he laid down the Communist view of history. The Red government of Rakosi, he said, did many wrong things and came into opposition with the Hungarian people; then reactionaries and villainous Americans started the revolution. And when Budapest asked the Soviet Union for help, it responded, because "of course, we help our friends." As for the "Hungarian students here in Oslo, I would only say that their hands are stained with blood...
Seeing the need for government machinery to express that concern, many Washington and Latin American officials frown at the low priority the U.S. gives Latin American affairs. The State Department's Latin America chief ranks with ten other Assistant Secretaries of State, below two Deputy Under Secretaries, two Under Secretaries and the Secretary of State himself. Two decades ago, the equivalent post ranked third. Some critics even think that a special branch of government, perhaps roughly similar to Britain's Commonwealth Relations office, is needed to administer the U.S.'s Latin American responsibilities with the necessary understanding...
...women appear in Casablanca without seeming to be the cliches. Maybe it is because Humphrey Bogart is holding both the guns and his liquor, and maybe it is because Ingrid Bergman is the woman. At any rate, Casablanca is outstanding. Few people wear a trench coat or a frown as well as Bogie and no one can rival Ingrid in looking wistful...