Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before Maureen can slip away with Daughter Stefanie Powers to strike a blow for gracious living, McLintock takes Patrick on as a ranch hand. The youngsters' romance blooms as soon as Stefanie disposes of her Harvard-educated suitor. Out in Marlboro country before the turn of the century, Harvardmen don't amount to much-they are apt to sing and dance and run off at the mouth. "He says anyone who wants to sell at a profit is reactionary-that's me!" Wayne growls...
Since the checkers appeared three days ago, many 'Cliffies have been resentful because "it is not consistent with the honor system" and "waiting in line 15 minutes to be checked off simply is not a part of gracious living...
Lonely Mat. She is 22, unmarried, slim, athletic, 5 ft. 4 in.-a blonde with blue-grey eyes, a firm and gracious definition of face, and full lips in a wide mouth that is often shaped in a wonderful grin. Refreshingly, the sense of sex that this composite production exudes seems intended to reproduce rather than destroy the best of mankind. Her father was a tea planter in India, where she was born. She went to a series of English boarding schools and London's Central School of Speech and Drama...
...Good gracious me," exclaims Momma Winger. "What won't that onery boy do next!" With this kind of talk it is not very surprising that Momma Winger's sprouting twelve-year-old son Newt turns out to be a high-spirited youth who would rather poke curiously into an anthill than do the family chores. Predictably, too, Newt is a bright lad, and getting on for a strong one. He is chosen to give the speech at his graduation. Put in late in a basketball game, he emerges as a high scorer. He defeats the local bully...
...read a paperback reprint of Admiral Halsey's Story, by Joe Bryan III. Then Fahey made a fair copy of his own diary and sent it to Bryan. He also sent it to Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, who sent it to Houghton Mifflin with a gracious foreword...