Word: heavenwards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...proceeding in good faith to do our part to bring about an honorable armistice . . ." The word "honorable" was heavily underscored. Supreme Commander Ridgway accompanied the admiral to his 'copter. As the machine rose, Joy, responding to the correspondents' farewells, crossed his fingers and rolled his eyes heavenward. Ridgway said to the newsmen, with unaffected earnestness: "This is a historic moment...
...Ceiling. The bosses were not placated when Eric Johnston, turning his eyes heavenward, announced he would re-examine the wage formula, which had precipitated the whole fight. Its 10% ceiling was already shredded with exemptions for fringe benefits, incentive payments, adjustment of inequities. Johnston punched out a new hole. He exempted cost-of-living wage boosts so long as they were in contracts signed before Jan. 25, the day of the Big Wage Freeze...
Later the Witnesses thunderously approved a resolution to forswear subversion and "as long as this world lasts, render to Caesar what is Caesar's." The Witnesses, said Witness President Nathan H. Knorr, are "pointing neither east nor west, but heavenward...
Virgin & Victim. More staid in his outside activities than he used to be, Zanuck, the one-man studio, still gives a three-ring performance. In a story conference where he plays all the roles of scenes in the making, the bristle mustache suddenly twitches, and the face looks heavenward in horror. The jaw sags until the huge cigar droops from his lower lip like a wet sheet hanging from a tenement window. He leans back across the grand piano in his office. His voice becomes shrill and frightened. This is Zanuck impersonating a virgin in distress...
Like Bruegel's work, Resurrection is rich in anecdote. Among other things, it shows a sailor greeting his girl, a crowd raising a tombstone, children reading inscriptions, old folks on all fours, a group gazing ecstatically heavenward, and a plump gravedigger, his work done, surveying the whole scene. Last week Resurrection earned a wide and rather startled audience; London's popular press wrote the painting up as "the picture of the year...