Word: sagged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than merely beautiful. The well-bred girl from Philadelphia is completely convincing as the slatternly, embittered wife of aging, alcoholic Matinee Idol Bing Crosby. She slouches around with her glowing hair gone dull, her glasses stuck on top of her head, her underlip sullen, resentment in the very sag of her shoulders and the dangle of her arms. She looks dreadful. Said Seaton: "You know that old cardigan sweater she wears? Well, a lot of actresses would say, 'Well, why don't we just put a few rhinestones here? I want to look dowdy, of course...
...C.I.O.'s December convention in Los Angeles, he will demand Reuther's resignation as president either of the C.I.O. or of the United Auto Workers, his basic source of strength. Reuther is not likely to give up either job peacefully. Despite last week's second-act sag, Dramatist McDonald seemed set on staging a crashing climax...
...post-Korean sag in metals also severely jolted some metal-exporting foreign countries, and the higher goals may allow some stockpile" purchasing abroad. The Randall Report, the Milton Eisenhower Report on Latin America and the Capehart Report on defense production all recommended increased stockpiling as a sound way of bolstering wobbly foreign economies. Last week the Administration gave one neighbor a lift by agreeing to buy up 100,000 tons of Chilean copper...
While signs multiplied that the anti-Communist alliance was under heavy strain, the U.S. public was hardly aware of the danger. Thanks to Joe McCarthy, it was concentrating on the case of a New York dentist named Irving Peress. The Big Sag was caused in part by the Big Wind from Wisconsin...
...only time Ike seems to sag is when he is bored. When he is interested, his eyes sparkle and his mobile mouth twists to a hundred shadings of response-grins of varying intensity if he approves what he hears, a shallow 5 in disbelief, a wry turndown at the corners if he is disgusted. When the going is heavy he concentrates as he listens, sometimes fiddling absently with a cap on a front tooth with thumb and forefinger. Sometimes he picks up his heavy-rimmed spectacles and twirls them or chews the stems. Or he will play with...