Word: frowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does," snapped McClellan with a frown, "and a million and a half union members in this country have some rights that this committee has been trying to protect...
...frown begins with a line biting deep into the bridge of the broad nose. Thin, pale lips turn thinner, paler. Behind black-rimmed glasses, eyes glow with a suggestion of banked-and therefore controlled -inner fires. The voice takes over from the frown. Deep and strong ("I have always had a commanding voice"), it needs no microphone to help it carry. Questions come slowly, in careful Southern cadence. In the voice, as if measured carefully by the tapping of a finger on a mahogany table, are righteousness and rebuke, sarcasm and sadness, incredulity and indignation. Never is there unrestrained anger...
...mile tour of the drought-ravaged Southwestern and Great Plains states, his face was a windburned, cherry red; his eyes were worn from squinting through dust and sun; his once carefully polished brown shoes were flaked with windblown dust. From his brusque manner and his almost perpetual frown, aides and reporters sensed that he was thoroughly depressed by what he had seen...
...afficionados and the just plain artsy craftsy have taken to wine bags in recent years. Just a little squeeze and some accurate aim, and a tasty squirt is obtained. The bag is sloppy for the novice, however, and even the experts frown at the leathery taste the wine soon acquires...
Likewise, while the presidents may very well frown on the spectacle part of football, the athletic directors are very concerned about the size of the crowd each Saturday afternoon. The heavy rains last fall cut quite deeply into the pockets of certain schools, and this year, all the staffs are praying for good weather. What is needed to solve this dilemma is an endowment for each school to absorb the costs of the athletic program, so that success need not be measured in ticket sales...