Word: glossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this country, and it seems safe to assume that the Kremlin will engage in no discussion that would not result in a Soviet propaganda victory of some sort. But more important, a summit meeting could easily force the U.S. into a position in which she would have to gloss over a defeat, or sacrifice too heavily for a victory...
...Desdemona, velvet-voiced Soprano Victoria de los Angeles took her time warming up, but was in soaring form by the third act's grand ensemble scene; her heavy acting was forgotten as she gave the Willow Song and Ave Maria in Act IV a purity and emotional gloss that held the house in a misty-eyed hush...
...special, ineffable magic of looks and personality that only a star strikes from celluloid. Young (24) and at the top of her form (37-23-37), Kim Novak is an ample (5 ft. 7 in., 125 Ibs.), creamy-skinned girl with classically solid Slavic good looks under a gloss of glamour. Her hazel eyes are long-lashed and deep-socketed; her full mouth pouts ever so slightly; an alabaster pallor sculpts her cheeks; her hair is shaped to the head in a fluffy corona of lavender-rinsed silver platinum. With no effort at all, she generates a kind...
...Democrats are united. Since, in time of peace and prosperity, no Democrat would feel called upon to defend a Republican budget, Johnson found it easy to unite his party against it, meanwhile managing to gloss over the deep Democratic splits between Southerners and civil-rights advocates, conservatives and Fair Dealers...
...strains outside are also visible inside the Congress-controlled Parliament itself. This week when Food Minister A. P. Jain tried to gloss over the nation's acute food shortage with bureaucratic doubletalk, he was hooted down by Congress Party M.P.s. When Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari announced sharp increases in taxes on railway fares, gasoline and vegetable oils, the Congress benches moaned, denounced their own new budget as a program designed to "soak the poor." Said one Congressman in Bombay: "It's getting fashionable to be anti-Congress...