Word: pawing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever met Thomas Wolfe was likely to forget the force of his personality. A hearty clasp of his huge paw could mean considerable pain to the hand he had shaken. And no reader of his novels, whatever the reservations about their real worth, could easily forget their impact. That is part of the trouble that confronts Biographer Andrew Turnbull. In his conversations, which were really monologues, and in his novels, notably Look Homeward, Angel and The Web and the Rock, Wolfe spilled it all. His autobiographical heat and drive, the boiling response of his senses, are the substance...
...former county judge who ran against Breathitt in 1963 and lost by a mere 13,055 votes, preaches that it is "time for a change" from the "old, entrenched political machine." He is an energetic handshaker and baby-kisser who is not above pumping a dog's paw at a shopping-center rally. To support his argument that the election has great national implications, Nunn has imported such Republican luminaries as Ronald Reagan, George Murphy and Everett Dirksen to point out that a Nunn victory would be a Johnson defeat...
...tyrants, Tenintius (Stuart Beck). The King is trying to auction off his daughter, Atalanta (George Denny), to any one of a number of suitors, and right now the smart money's on a wealthy young Spartan, Hippomenes (Rich Hammond), who's so good looking that even the Vestals paw his tunic...
...reared there and in Missouri-and stubbornly adhered to the idea that wickedness was no subject for entertainment. In his work, children and animals were naturally good; nature, at least in his animated films, was not so red in tooth and claw as it was cuddly in fur and paw...
Penelope. "Whe-ere can I find the la-adies room?" quavers a dear little old lady who smiles like Grandma Moses as her palsied little paw presents a pistol that is possibly somewhat larger than the little old lady herself...