Word: rakishly
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These listeners then, and not the speakers' failure to resolve the relationship of the College to individual morality proved the saddest disappointment of the evening. Goodman engaged them with his views, but manipulated them with his mannerisms. He flattered them with sincere intimacy, like a permissive father might his rakish son, and soon they were tittering at the mention of intercourse, snickering at each four-letter word like preppies at a locker-room joke...
...Anne, 12, clambered out of their raspberry-pink royal plane at Frankfurt last week, there were no top hatted officials to welcome them or respectful crowds cheering "Es lebe hock!" After greeting their waiting cousins, Prince Ludwig and Princess Margaret von Hessen, Philip and Anne got quickly into the rakish Alvis sports coupe, which had been flown ahead of the royal party from London. Then they headed down the Autobahn to Darmstadt, where they stayed at the Von null palatial 18th century Schloss Wolfsgarten...
...mischievous features. He looks like a cross between a grumpy polar bear and a tipsy Greek philosopher. As his equally ancient wife ("a nagger's nagger") frets, scolds, and pokes at him, Ustinov's countenance becomes a weather map of changing frustrations. His eyes ski off at rakish tangents. His jaw chomps erratically over what could be a mouthful of elastics. His arms and fingers do little arcs and spins like dangling mobiles. Even after Ustinov begins to speak, these body tics go on, and it is a tribute to Ustinov as a mugger's mugger that...
Difficulties came to a head under Lester Lum ("Tex'') Colbert, 57, former Chrysler attorney who took over command of the company in 1950. Colbert began a feverish drive to modernize Chrysler's plants, and was responsible for the rakish "Forward Look" that made Chrysler's 1957 cars a runaway success. But in the process, he let the company's quality standards slip scandalously. By 1959, Chrysler sales had slipped from a solid 25% of the U.S. auto market under Walter P. down to 11.3%. From a $120 million profit in 1957, the company staggered into a $34 million loss...
...cars, once a European specialty, are sprouting in the American lines. Oldsmobile's is a coupe called Jetfire, with bucket seats in front and a turbosupercharged high-compression engine capable of delivering 215 horses (price: $3,039). Stude-baker's new Avanti (TIME, April 13) is a rakish restyling from inside out designed to narrow still further the gap between the family sedan and the gran turismo...