Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O. Political Action Committee's Jack Kroll, who liked the looks of William O. Douglas before the Democratic Convention, told a union convention in Milwaukee that President Truman "has a new look now, and I must say that the new look becomes...
...have passed since East and West have met socially in Berlin on any such scale. It is thus only natural that even the sickly sweet flavor of cocktail conversation be sharpened with a little acid. An American official points to a Soviet officer and says to me: "That s.o.b. looked straight through me-and we used to go boating together." A British lady, laboring under the delusion that she possesses a gift for repartee, is asked by a friend why she requires such a preposterously large pin to hold a single rose in place on her ample bosom, and replies...
...pump working on the cesspool but he could not pursue his investigation further because the Russians would not let him inside the house. "You have your laws," said a courteous comrade, "and we have ours. Your American laws do not concern us. We do not need you here. You look after your people and we will look after ours." Sanitary facilities, he added, were "adequate...
Bigart was warned to employ the strictest konspiratsia, "that favorite Balkan term for secrecy." Next day the stranger brought a guide, a stocky, studious youth named John. He told Bigart to buy a ticket to Rome and get an Italian visa, to make things look legitimate, then...
...flailing his arms like an orchestra conductor, Orozco "painted" by means of shouted instructions to half a dozen agile young artists in bosun's chairs. At last, one morning, he spread his arms wide; the mural was finished and the perspiring painters were free to come down and look at what Orozco had done...