Word: prim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mention of the U.N., his mysterious CIA boss, "the man called Smith," replies: "I may agree with your appraisal of the U.N., but so long as our government counts it a worthwhile forum, I feel bound to do so too." Hunt describes the CIA as "grown old and cautious, prim, reliant on technology far more than human beings...
Brazil's prim, puritanical military government, which last January banned certain erotic drawings by Pablo Picasso as obscene, has moved ahead with its campaign to keep the country pure and clean. In a tough new press-censorship decree, it banned 60 foreign and domestic magazines-including Playboy, Penthouse, Lui and, curiously, the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel-because they offended "morality and proper behavior" by exploiting erotic themes. The decree also provided that all magazines circulating in Brazil must henceforth submit copies to police censors to determine whether they conform to government standards. If the journals are not approved...
Died. John Lord O'Brian, 98, prim, patriarchal dean of Supreme Court lawyers and an active partner in the prestigious Washington, D.C., firm of Covington & Burling; of a heart attack; in Washington. In a legal career spanning three-quarters of a century, O'Brian served as a U.S. Attorney in New York State, a Justice Department administrator and a private lawyer who championed the cause of civil liberties in Supreme Court hearings. Rigidly Republican and openly critical of New Deal spending during the '30s, he nevertheless defended the constitutionality of the Tennessee Valley Authority before the high...
This is but one of several Richards that Pacino offers. Wooing Lady Anne across the corpse of her father-in-law, whom he has murdered, the Pacino Richard becomes the archetypal Latin lover, a superior Rudolph Valentino with sound. Playing off against his brother Edward IV-prim in gray double-breasted suit with pink button-down shirt and polka-dot tie-he cuts up like a sinister baggy-pants clown. Cornered on the battlefield where he is about to lose his crown and his life, waving the royal dagger like a switchblade, he turns into pure street fighter...
...behind me chance seat mates on a Greyhound hound for Detroit from Chicago She speaks with good sharp mid western is and I think maybe she was from Nebraska before she became a butcher's wife in Chicago. She's a widow now and sounds like everyone's grandmother: prim, alert, congenitally sympathetic...