Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three weeks after he was hired, Townsend and wife Rosemary were settled in a "grace and favor" cottage behind a ten-foot privet hedge in Windsor Great Park. They shared the hardships of most young married couples on service pay, and it was harder on the wife than the husband. Wing Commander Townsend had only his officer's allowances, plus an extra stipend of ?1,000 for his royal duties, and as a result the pair were far poorer than most of the people they were called on to meet...
...Bethlehem Steel Corp. (No. 2) tagged an extra $11 million for expansion, bringing its current program to $154 million. Chairman E. G. Grace guessed that the U.S. can use 5,000,000 more tons of steel capacity right away, will need another 5,000,000 in the next five or ten years...
...drenched and desiccated, the tiny inhabitants of the marine demimonde learn to live dangerously and adapt to the challenges of intertidal life. From a thousand examples, Author Carson evokes all the moods of the edge of the sea and of its inhabitants-strange, ugly, beautiful, bizarre. Nature's grace, order and mystery flow through her book like an underwater ballet. Again Author Carson has shown her remarkable talent for catching the life breath of science on the still glass of poetry...
...Boston city government took the loss of its censoring power with little grace. Under the police power of the morals code, the city still retains the right to stop the showing of any "lewd, indecent, or obscene" picture, to confiscate the film, and to fine the exhibitor or revoke his license. But before these powers can be exercised, the film must have been shown publicly at least once. Accordingly, on the night when The Game of Love opened a delegation from city hall, including the mayor, was on hand to debate the picture's obscenity. After some days of soul...
...where he is, he usually isn't. Like as not, though, he is in another brisk and stylish scene, surrounded by intelligent people who are obviously enjoying themselves. Kay Kendall, for instance, makes a damozel as dainty as court broidery, though she has precious little to do (as Grace Kelly complained when she refused the part) but "clutch her jewel box and flee." Robert Morley very nearly carries off the whole show. As he heaves before the camera, swishing his eyes about as lesser players might wave their arms, and wagging his paunch as though it were a prosperous...