Word: lolling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preliminaries, Lyndon Johnson had acted for all the world like a man who hoped to get his name mentioned on television as one of the half a dozen or so favorite-son candidates at the Democratic Convention. He stuck to his Senate knitting, went back to Texas to loll under the sun on his LBJ Ranch at Stonewall, Texas, made little if any effort to round up delegates outside the 56 pledged to him from his home state. But last week-on the very day that Harry Truman threw the convention into an uproar-Lyndon Johnson strode into the center...
...written a fairly competent extended metaphor comparing the sea to a woman. He rather successfully captures both the rise and fall of the swells and their dark, light-drowing power. There is a strong suggestion of death wish and a good bit of alliteration. One line--"While limbs loll out long like a lover"--seems to have little meaning within the context of the poem, but the image is satisfying, and it trips off the tongue nicely. Fred Seidel's poem about death is filled with images. It is not as obscure as it might have been...
...Lyndon B. Johnson, 47, thriving on a low-caloric diet to speed his recovery from his heart attack of early July, waved a happy farewell to congressional cares at Washington's National Airport. Then he and his wife Lady Bird flew away home to Texas, where Johnson will loll around a few months in home-town Johnson City...
...Hungary was only a matter of time. Last week it came in the form of a 6,000-word article in the party organ Szabad Nep denouncing Nagy and all his works. It accused Nagy of deceiving "the working classes with cheap demogogic promises" which caused them to loll idly "waiting for the plums to drop into their mouths," charged him with "rightist deviationism" and with "encouraging nationalism and chauvinism." The language of the communiqué might have been Rakosi's, but the message was straight from Moscow...
...lions with sad-princess eyes go flitting through the gold and violet depths, as light as swallows in a summer sunset; while under a red reef the huge sea elephants loll and preen themselves like odalisques in a sea god's harem; one of the beauties puckers up to kiss the camera, and the theater rocks as if it had been hit (as in fact it has) by a two-ton buss...