Word: luster
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...reason for the surge of bellicosity was that Kennedy himself had been getting punched of late. The week's election news was worrisome. In Michigan, the voters adopted the new constitution that Republican Governor George Romney had been battling for, and the victory both brightened Romney's luster and dimmed the prospects that Kennedy will carry Michigan in 1964 as he did in 1960. In Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley, who helped Kennedy mightily in his close squeak in 1960, won re-election by only a mediocre margin against a weak opponent...
...ugly bug. The tower of education's "massive walls and large windowless areas" shone like alabaster in the reproduction. In fact they will be the familiar mottled red, broken most months by bare, scraggly Ivy vines. Before many years in the local air, the red will lose its luster, the mortar will turn dull grey...
...slump at the time. If the Braves sink far enough, the Chicago Cubs will surge all the way to seventh. Ernie Banks holds down a solid infield, rookie Nelson Mathews should help fill in for George Altman, and the acquisition of Larry Jackson and Lindy McDaniel will add luster to the staff...
According to Miss Gish the lack of heroic luster of the modern star system is due to type casting. Versatility is no longer appreciated, either by public or industry. "Clark Gable and Gary Cooper are two examples of type actors, who played the same part throughout their acting careers. The greatness of Alec Guinness, in her opinion the finest modern actor, lies in his ability to completely assume the role he is playing, and not expand the part to fit his own personality. Miss Gish thinks that such acting lightweights as Sandra Dee and Tuesday Weld are a group...
...time the relays approached, Army had already clinched the meet. Yet the Crimson victories in the last two events at least dimmed the luster of the Cadet performance...