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Word: scowled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening-night rough spots, largely owing to lack of rehearsal time and uncertain acoustics in the new house, hurt the performances. But Actor Robards, with his long, brooding spade-jawed scowl, was almost always convincing as the man of honor changing slowly into an unwilling miscreant and finally into a ruthless, sneering, hell-bent King. Outstanding moments: his bloody babbling after Macbeth murders Duncan ("Macbeth does murder sleep"), the "Tomorrow and tomorrow" speech as he holds his dead wife in his arms. Actress McKenna made her Lady Macbeth warm and feminine ("I feel people should have compassion for the sinners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STAGE: Sound & Fury | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Roaring around the tracks of the world in his flame red Ferrari, Racing Driver Mike Hawthorn, 29, was all that hero-hungry Britons could ask for. His big body hunched in cramped cockpits, his face set in a ferocious scowl, their Mike was a throwback to Battle of Britain fighter pilots -a carefree daredevil with unruly flaxen hair and polka-dot bowtie. In eight lusty years, lead-footed Mike punished cars, survived six serious accidents -and last October became the first world champion in British racing history. Two months later moody Mike abruptly retired from racing, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Road from Farnham | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...Positions. By week's end Mikoyan got down to hard cases with two men who, while entirely willing to listen, shared none of the loose optimism about the real purposes of Mikoyan's visit. The men: John Foster Dulles and Dwight Eisenhower. Mustache bristling and a thoughtful scowl replacing a fortnight's smile, Mikoyan was ushered into Secretary of State Dulles' beige and rose office for a lengthy talk before he called at the White House. Conversation touched on many points, e.g., the Geneva conferences, the whereabouts of eleven U.S. flyers still missing after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Down to Hard Cases | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...stop," said the ghost, a scowl on his face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Portrait of the Artist | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

...rest assured, fairest of Fair Harvard! Harvard has her own honors program, and look what is happening to it. And proctors may scowl at the men, but the women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What God Hath Joined | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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