Word: nether
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gleave is head of the Foreign Office's American desk (Maclean's old job). Like many of his kind, he is crushed beneath the upper millstone of parvenu wealth (which he despises) and the nether millstone of the privileged working class, symbolized by a State housing development which will take from him his mortgaged home. Gleave is in the grip of the constant, twitching fear that he and his family will fall into the anonymous abyss of "the proles." His wife has to do the cooking! Gleave is offered a job in commerce at five times his Foreign...
...Chicago Tribune's ebullient publisher, Colonel Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick, 74, left his annual hibernation in Florida with pains in his nether regions, was reported out of the hospital and doing fine in Chicago after surgery for abdominal adhesions...
...Committee, which originated the German Exchange Student Program here and published the widely circulated International Student Information Service Bulletin until last year, was abandoned when the State Department withdrew founds for the Exchange program and when the National Student Association moved the Bulletin offices to the Nether-lands...
...devoted almost as much energy to damning newfangled contraptions as he has to inventing them. He has cursed the power loom, the steam locomotive, the Welsbach mantle, the airplane and the electric shaver with a vehemence calculated to deliver whole generations of mankind to the greasiest fry cooks of nether Hell...
...favors. Hart sold her to Lord Buckhurst, but Nelly didn't like him, and besides, a scepter was already tapping at her door. Poet John Dryden has described some of the charms that caught the royal eye: "Oval face, clear skin, hazel eyes, thick brown eyebrows ... a full nether lip ... the bottom of your cheeks a little blub, and two dimples when you smile." Add to that a firm, small, voluptuous figure. Charles II took her home with...