Word: prickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mixture of affection and exasperation. Often she has tried to moderate his irritable perfectionism, which can result in his berating other actors. "Afterwards he's sorry, but no one is around then," she says. Harrison is equally harsh on himself, readily accepts criticism. "It's impossible to prick the man's bubble," says Lilli. "Rex doesn't have a bubble...
...years . . . the people of Eastern Europe have had a decade or more to appraise the system . . . The Soviet leaders are now unwilling to submit to the verdict of the peoples who know it best." Skillfully, Dulles picked up the sword of Khrushchev's own speech to point and prick at the Communist system, pointing out that...
...vaccinators used an instant preparation made from dried vaccine (conventional liquid vaccine spoils in the heat of Iran's outlying districts, where there is no refrigeration). Next came the women, breaking Moslem tradition by letting men other than their kinfolk touch them. The children yelled at the prick of the vaccinators, but a rearguard of tribesmen pushed them ahead. Band after band of Bakhtiari gained the pass, and the vaccinators worked on. By day's end their score was 3,007 inoculations...
Many Britons, high and low, profess to be bored stiff these days with talk of Princess Margaret, but when Margaret's name is mentioned, her sister's subjects prick up their ears. Last week, sparked by the fact that the Roman Catholic Duke of Norfolk, Premier Peer and hereditary Earl Marshal of England, went to call on the Pope for the first time in 18 years, rumors were once again rife about Princess Margaret. Flimsily constructed on the supposition that high-ranking Norfolk's papal audience could only concern an equally high-ranking cause, the rumors took...
There were other signs that the nation's money managers were no longer thinking in terms of further credit restraints. One big reason: the illness of President Eisenhower had done as much as any FRB action to prick the speculative bubble on the boom. In fact, indications were that U.S. credit might be eased, perhaps in January, after the Christmas buying rush...