Word: gloweringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words glower more darkly out of the memory of the Depression than unemployment (24.9% of the working force at the 1933 depth). Yet when the Air Force canceled its $500 million Navaho missile project last month, and Los Angeles' North American Aviation Inc. direly proclaimed that it would have to lay off 15,600 men, this is what happened...
...Eiffel Glower. In Cairo, Cole Porter's I Love Paris, banned after the Anglo-French bombing of Egypt last November, was being sung again, to the words, "I love Madrid...
Neither Snow Nor Rain. In Gulfport, Miss., the postman correctly delivered to J. R. and T. S. Glower a letter from Waco, Texas addressed: "Downtown Furniture Store Run by Two Brothers who Look Alike, Across Street from Dime Store, Appliance Store at One End of Street, Dry Goods Store at Other...
...twelfth day, Secretary of the Army Robert Ten Broeck Stevens sat, grey-faced, before the stare of the television cameras. Across a crouched pack of news photographers, he faced the glower of Senator Joe McCarthy. The Secretary's right eye blinked irregularly and his right cheek twitched as he tried to follow the curves and hooks in McCarthy's questions. Using all of his formidable tricks of crossexamination, the Senator was trying to confuse the Secretary into a key admission: he wanted Stevens to say that McCarthy & Co. had never "threatened" the Army in an effort...
Unmatched Record. Big Bill was the John Barrymore of the courts, and the crowds loved it, even when he hurled his racket skyward shrieking. "Ye gods! Is there no justice?" after a linesman made a close call against him. Hands on hips, defying all tennis convention, Big Bill would glower at the offending official and ask coldly: "Would you like to correct your error...