Word: pincenezed
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Ironically, Andropov may owe his rise to the bungling of one of the nation's most notorious secret police chiefs, Lavrenti Beria. After the death of Stalin in 1953, the tiny Georgian with the trademark pincenez tried to bully his way to power by incorporating the Ministry of the Interior into his vast security empire. That incautious move roused a vengeance-minded Politburo to action. Beria was arrested and executed. First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, in a famous secret speech to the 20th Party Congress in 1956, vowed that the state security forces would be subservient to the principles of "revolutionary...
...portrait of his friend, Monsignor James Turner, however, that Eakins brought his fullest powers. From the thoughtful, chin-in-hand pose and the bookish sophistication of the pincenez to the compassion, intelligence and ever-so-subtle weakness spelled in the cleric's features, Eakins crystallized the peculiar humanity of the dedicated priest -and vindicated his own lonely, stubborn loyalty to life...
Douglas jumped up, clapped his hands to his head, and let out a high-pitched scream of wordless exasperation. He stumbled down the aisle as O'Mahoney, pincenez in hand, watched openmouthed. Outside, Douglas flopped down on a couch, tears spilling down his cheeks. Someone put a cold towel on his head. Half an hour later, he was back in his seat...
Last week hustling Mrs. Tufty was back at her regular job of covering the capital for 31 papers in Texas, Michigan and New Jersey. The Duchess, as she likes to be called, dashed up to Manhattan, her pincenez dangling wildly at her bosom, for a television gabfest with her good friend Mary Margaret McBride, and Congressman Fred Hartley. Said Tufty later: "Mary Margaret was a little out of her depth with Fred, so I just took over and interviewed him myself...
...Celeste Aïda" with all his might, clung to the last B flat until the gallery was almost beside itself. To crown the performance Gatti had a new conductor, Ettore Panizza, onetime conductor of the Scala in Milan. Conductor Panizza is a lean, sparse-haired man who wears pincenez and a measly mustache. But he quickly proved himself a sure-fire opera leader, made the tunes so fetching that even the boxholders were hard put to it not to whistle...