Word: lounger
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...nauseated." Selma's Circuit Judge James Hare, a plantation-bred racist, dolefully described the coming of the registrars as "the second Reconstruction." And in Louisiana's East Feliciana Parish, where less than 5% of the 4,102 voting-age Negroes are on the rolls, one white lounger turned to a friend as the registration lines formed and sneered: "You got any cats, dogs or mules to bring in and register?" But there was little heckling and no violence. Law of the Land. Smoothly as Katzenbach's operation went in the selected dead-end counties, he conceded that...
...sprawling sportswriter, Matthau for once has a role that, without strain fits him like an old pair of pants. In fact he wears a pair of his own on stage, marvelously purple dungarees that cost him 12? in Chinatown. Like Oscar in the play, Matthau is a natural-born lounger, poker fan and sports butt...
...flying sports plane towed a banner above Miami last week to spread the news to any beach lounger looking for action: CASINOS REOPEN IN HAVANA...
...time may be ripening for a modern-dress version, with Scrooge as a tough old union boss; a psychiatric adaptation ("These hallucinations of yours," says Scrooge's analyst nephew, "suggest a guilt syndrome"); or even a major switch as foreseen in a recent cartoon in which a clubroom lounger growls of his book: "It's a new story by that Dickens fellow about a worthy banker named Scrooge who finally degenerates into a sentimental weakling...
...whom (Dimitri Horn) soon has his eye on Marina. At first she is cool. She is bitterly ashamed of her family's poverty, and almost morbid with humiliation when the whole town starts to talk about her mother, who has been beating about the bushes with a local lounger ("The older the hen," somebody snickers, "the better the broth...