Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explanation seemed perfectly satisfactory to Myra. "I love married life," she said, adding that though Jerry had been too busy to buy her a wedding ring, he did get her a red Cadillac. And her father, who played bull fiddle in Jerry Lee's band, didn't seem to object either. But the London press, already fed up with the antics of Britain's own rock-'n'-roll stars, was all shook up now. The Daily Mail angrily demanded that Jerry be sent back "whence he came, somewhere in the mid-belt of America...
...case of Van Cliburn would seem to indicate that the U.S. is the latest country to become a Russian satellite. Other American artists have won important contests in Brussels and elsewhere, and the only perceptible reaction in this country was a dull thud. Now Moscow has endorsed Cliburn, and the same man overnight becomes a national American hero. Are we to understand that American artists will henceforth have to pay their obeisance to Khrushchev before they can hope to be recognized in their own country...
...years of mathematics, six years of biology, five years of physics, four of chemistry. Westerners have found that even children's toys point up the stress on science: while dolls and tin soldiers are shabbily made, such gadgets as toy TV sets, workshops, radios and telephones seem to have been manufactured with expert care...
...before going to Notre Dame to crown himself Emperor, he could not resist dragging his older brother to a looking glass, gloating, "Joseph, if our father could see us!" In the field he dressed plainly, had to be told by his sister to wear, suspenders because "your breeches always seem to be on the point of falling down." Léger, his tailor, reported indignantly turning down the Emperor's request to patch a pair of hunting breeches. And though Napoleon ennobled all his brothers, behind the scenes he ranted like any Corsican bourgeois, broke up one family council...
...short, they want to steal Josephine's eggs. And while it might seem worthwhile to breed the whooping crane in any way possible, notice should be given to the Fish and Wildlife Service (we know what they do to trout when they get the chance) that some things are sacred and that Josephine, for one, should be able to stand by her rights. That is, Josephine should sit one, her own eggs. She laid them, she should hatch them. Better the species should perish than Josephine should be denied the full satisfactions of motherhood...