Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front man, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, headed home from the U.N.'s tenth anniversary whoop-de-do in San Francisco. Flashing a toothy smile from under his grey mustache, Molotov deported himself like anybody's lovable old maiden aunt, exuding good will and sedate good humor. When his eastbound train reached Utah, he was handed a security-cleared "Military Map of the U.S.," showing key military installations as of 1953 and bearing printed regrets that censorship prevented inclusion of newer facilities. Arriving in Chicago, Tourist Molotov was greeted by a band of grim-faced hecklers, mostly Baltic...
...more like a hoarse lion. On his way to appointments, he lopes in a half-walk, half-trot, arms pumping like a sprinter, while he bellows orders to an aide panting along behind. He often loses his bowstring temper. But recently he has learned to temper his tantrums with humor. "All right, you guys," he roared at a recent company meeting when everyone started clamoring at once, "let me blow my top first. Then you can blow yours...
Fort Worth's new $12 million airport: Amon Carter Field. Dallas took Carter's gibes in good humor, thought (as did Amon Carter) that the competition was good for both cities. Said the Dallas Morning News: "Carter punched Dallas like cowboys are wont to do slow steers in a shipping chute...
Marty. The love story of "a very good butcher"; home truth and homely humor in the life of an ordinary man-well perceived by Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, well expressed by Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair (TIME, April...
Marty. The love story of a "very good butcher"; home truth and homely humor in the life of an ordinary man-well perceived by Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, well expressed by Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair (TIME, April...