Word: owlish
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...lean, greying native of Walla Walla, Wash, with a quizzical look, owlish spectacles and a black mustache. Morgan made his most memorable 1956 newscasts on a story of painful intimacy to him, the sinking of the Andrea Doria. Aboard and reported killed in the crash with the Stockholm was his 14-year-old daughter Linda, who had been traveling with Morgan's exwife, Jane Cianfarra, and her husband. New York Times Correspondent Camille Cianfarra. Morgan rushed to a rescue ship on a Coast Guard cutter, then back to Manhattan for his evening newscast. Scriptless, he ad-libbed an eloquent...
...moved to a close, it seemed that Nenni and his followers had at last reconciled themselves to denouncing unequivocally their Communist allies. This would meet the conditions laid down by Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats for a reunification of the long-divided Italian Social ists. While owlish Pietro Nenni beamed down from the red-streamered dais of Venice's Teatro San Marco, 1,000 Congress delegates overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for a prompt merger with the Social Democrats...
...Mortem Post-Mortem. "Easing the passing of a dying person is not all that wicked," the doctor, according to police, had said at his arrest. "She wanted to die." But in making his case against the owlish physician, who sat quietly in dock making notes for his own lawyer on a pad, Prosecutor Melford Stevenson got permission from the presiding magistrate "to deal with the deaths of two other patients of Dr. Adams who died in circumstances which the Crown says exhibit similarity to the death of Mrs. Morrell." These two were wealthy Alfred John Hul-lett...
...Owlish Pollster Elmo Roper was elected board chairman of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic, replacing ex-Automaker Paul G. Hoffman...
...latest hunt for trouble in Egypt, Roy teamed up with an oddly contrasting companion: short, owlish Photographer David Seymour, 45, a grey-haired, Polish-born, Sorbonne-educated American known affectionately almost everywhere as "Shim" (after his real name, Chimin), and as celebrated for his gentleness and ensibility as Roy for his daring. Violence lad shadowed Shim's life: the Nazis destroyed his family in Poland, and a Communist land mine in Indo-China killed his best friend, famed War Photographer Robert Capa, with whom Shim and France's Henri Cartier-Bresson founded he picture agency Magnum Photos...