Word: pert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholastic standards, a better basketball team, and a lower rate of pregnancy" than any little coed college in the Midwest. The haloed hoopster of the basketball team, a stilt-high science major named Ray Blent (played with engaging cyclonic dis-coordination by Robert Elston), is in love with the pert, bouncy girl cheerleader (Nina Wilcox). When $1,500 in fix money is anonymously planted in his overcoat, visions of marrying his sugarplum dance momentarily through Blent's troubled head. Between the girl, the game, and his duty, poor Blent is soon hooping around like a praying mantis about...
...inner-directed rather than outer-space bound. The Headpiece is a typical Bradbury skin-prickler. Andrew Lemon is a middle-aged apartment dweller, thoroughly undistinguished except for the hole in his head, the result of a hammer blow from his exwife. Lemon is hopelessly in love with a pert young thing down the hall, but she is cool to him, and he blames his strange deformity. One day he knocks at her door proudly decked in a toupee. Tonelessly, the girl says, "I can still see the hole, Mr. Lemon...
...unruly bangs and neat velvety chignons, girls with eyes slanted a little and girls with eyes slanted a lot. Amid all the girls, one stands out in twilight softness. When she first appears, her slow, sloe eyes look down, ever so shy. Then she bounces her head in a pert little Chinese kowtow and the hoarse, sweet husk of her voice sounds hauntingly soft. "Ten thousand benedictions...
...minute conversation between Hatfield and Neuberger was polite and pleasant. While Maurine Neuberger and pert mother-to-be Antoinette Hatfield discussed draperies, Hatfield and Neuberger retired to the study of the Senator's rambling, green Portland home, spread papers on a coffee table, reached agreement on an all-for-Oregon, nine-point agenda, e.g., if increase in the state gasoline tax to assure federal highway funds, a development corporation for the Columbia River...
...technique is all her own. Pert and comely, she sits quietly in meetings and hearing rooms, watching gestures, listening to sounds, painting mental pictures. She writes swiftly and well, turns out some of the most perceptive, pungent copy in Washington, D.C. Says U.P.I. Bureau Chief Lyle Wilson of the Washington Star's Mary McGrory: "Mary is the tops-the best I've ever seen. Her stuff stands up next day; it has survival value...