Word: leered
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Your March 10 criticism of the Reader's Digest articles on sex is annoyingly typical of the adolescent leer with which your editors approach the subject...
...high, thin falsetto through My One and Only Love. His phrasing was fresh, his diction irreproachable, his dramatic sense unfailing. But it was the intimate, haunting quality of his voice that brought the audience alive. It has a kind of choirboy innocence hooked with a Cole Porter leer...
Holder tower looms high above the thick mud that clogs the cordovans and white sneakers. "Named in honor of Christopher Holder," the plaque reads, "a member of the Society of Friends in America in the seventeenth century, devout, loyal to duty, patient in suffering." Gargoyles leer down at the spectacle over the cloister arcade and from a phonograph stuck out the second-floor window of four entry the voice of a rock-and-roll singer blares fortissimo...
Spillane's Hammer: He had the old familiar flair for violence and the leer for sex. And, true to fiction, Private Eye Mike Hammer was soon mixed up with a wild-eyed client and a wide-eyed doll. When the shooting was over, the client lay dead on the waterfront and the doll was off to the electric chair. "You burn me up," she murmured to Hammer as she was taken away. "No," Mike gently corrected, "the warden does that...
...worth. Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus last week descended to what the Washington Post and Times Herald called "the lavatory level." U.S. paratroopers, he cried, were escorting Negro students into the girls' locker room at Little Rock's Central High School-and were lingering around to leer at ungarbed young Southern white womanhood. The facts of the matter proved Orval Faubus less a master of morals than mendacity...