Word: scowled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first round. Challenger Ezzard Charles jolted the heavyweight champion with a right uppercut. Rocky Marciano lowered his head, and an irritated scowl flickered across his splayed features. Then, unperturbed, Rocky plodded back into the fight. He had taken the challenger's best punch; Charles was already a beaten boxer...
...boss's ear; Secretary Stevens, eager but harassed, his horn-rimmed glasses forever sliding down his nose; Arkansas' Senator McClellan. rough and ready, if sometimes confused, the committee's angry man; Senator Mundt, jowls aquiver, chugging at his pipe; Counsel Ray Jenkins, with his formidable scowl and unrelenting legalistic precision...
Like almost no other undergraduate sport, Harvard basketball brings a blank and a scowl to the faces of grads recalling their sporting years in college. Even the undergraduate mind has become conditioned to expect defeat and disappointment...
...Trial principals who does not also sing in Pinafore, makes up for an infinitesimal voice by rascally and slick acting as the defendant, Edwin. William Cowperthwaite as the Usher is the only other outstanding actor in the curtain raiser. His strong, clear voice and solemn scowl are quite suited to the part. Unfortunately he becomes too enamored of that particular characterization, and later in the evening, as the hideous Dick Deadeye, his performance is too stiff, his accent too clear and his manner (if not his body) too unbending...
...hobo instead. Young fellows can feel pretty morbid at that age, but the juices of life are running pretty powerfully too. So one day in the summer of 1897, in his home town of Galesburg, Ill., he accepted his mother's kiss and his father's scowl and hit the road...