Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while as if Congress might wag the White House," she said, "but now it looks as if you have the power . . . to work your will on Congress. It also looks as if you were winning the propaganda war, sort of, between the Democrats and the Republicans. Would you give us some idea of how, what system you employed to do this...
...Senate's Democratic leadership, including Bill Fulbright, was irritated and glum, because chances were good that when Senate and House conferees met to put together the final foreign aid bill, they would find Dwight Eisenhower's argument pretty hard to resist, would probably have to give him pretty much what he wanted...
Secretary Herter, so busy with his own Geneva that he can give little thought to the test-ban conference, listened attentively but made no promises...
...good deal of license in the second part of his complete title--Twelfth Night; or, What You Will. The most famous words in the whole play are, oddly enough, the very first ones: 'If music be the food of love, play on.' Ha, look at the next words: 'Give me excess of it.' And Shakespeare has filled his text with references to songs. Of course we can't have singing without dancing too. I'll advertise my version as 'a music and dance extravaganza of Twelfth Night.' [Webster's Dictionary defines 'extravaganza' as something "wildly irregular."] Malvolio has a phrase...
Women often falsely imagine they are in love. The excitement of an intrigue, the emotions aroused by sex, the instinctive enjoyment of being wooed and the difficulties of saying no, all give them an illusion of passion where nothing exists beyond coquetry...