Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really a good democrat. In buttering up the U.S. and Latin America, he turned angrily on his fellow Europeans. "The European nations are so incapable, so old and so divided, and their politics so full of Marxism, passions and rancors," he said, "that it is natural for us to look toward America. The sea is no longer a barrier but a road to be traveled over ... In foreign politics . . . what counts [is] mutual understanding . . . and clean friendship on all sides, and so I will say, in the words of the song: 'He who does not feel this way should...
...Monkeys have thin, pressed-in lips, while people have fleshy lips turned outward. It is not by chance that many ladies paint their lips: they are trying to say, 'Look, I'm a human, not a monkey...
Soviet officialdom decided to make it plain that good upright Communist bipeds would not be caught cavorting about on all fours. In Izvestia, Party Polemicist Boris Lavrenev reported that a look at Antipin's family tree revealed a wretched bourgeois background. The professor had fought the Red army as a member of Admiral Kolchak's White Guard in 1919. Obviously, Lavrenev concluded, Antipin was nothing but "a common adventurer, slavishly addicted to idiotic . . . ravings...
...drawing-room windows were barricaded with piles of logs, and a six-by-nine-foot Union Jack was draped over a bookcase. Said Mrs. Hawkings: "I know the Communists don't like a display of flags, but we just wanted to look...
...Deacon Greenough of Deerfield, Mass, took one look at the new principal of the town's academy and snorted. The principal hardly looked big or bright enough to get along with his students. The deacon's neighbors agreed. "I saw the new principal this morning," said one. "He'll really never...