Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rubber days were never a happy experience for Vag. He always felt surly, humanly frail, and totally unsuccessful with Radcliffe on such occasions. No matter how effete he managed to appear, no matter what he said of wit, his rubbers always had the last word. They never failed to remind him that he was a twitch. Vag sighed several theatrical sighs, took a few lumbering steps for practice, and gamely set off for class...
Supposing that we hadn't been "stripped of ... empire, economically and physically sapped . . ." by wars - in which, may I remind you, you first bled us white with "cash-and-carry" and then joined in largely to protect your investment in our future -are we to understand that you would expect us to be as anxious as the Gadarene swine to plunge to perdition...
Dealing with subjects as homely as breakfast, gossip, and walking home from school, actors are very likely to betray the fact they are acting, but this presentation of the adult world of Grovers Corners was nearly flawless. Wilder's characters remind you of people you know, despite differences in dress and accent. And the cast, especially Dixi DeWitt (Mrs. Webb) and Edward O'Callahan (Dr. Gibbs) made these characters real, in Wilder's sense of universal types...
...against police barricades, waving placards and chanting rebel songs. "I want to see the people," said Castro, trying to break through his 200-man guard. His escort hauled Castro off to his car. That night, he drew fluttery glances at a Women Lawyers Association meeting. "Doesn't he remind you of a younger Jimmy Stewart?" one matron asked...
...Roller Bearing Co. had offered $30.5 million for the outstanding British-held shares of British Timken Ltd., Laborite Harold Wilson rose in the House of Commons to ask whether the trend was not "cause for alarm or action." Calmly replied Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory: "I should remind you that the amount of net investment we have made abroad enormously exceeds any net foreign investment made in this country over recent years." Wrote the News Chronicle's Michael Gassman: "There should be no scare that the Yanks are coming. They are already here...