Word: sheepishness
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...Salinas, to work for Paper-Mate is to be somebody. After work, in a tableau like a scene from Carmen, the girl penmakers, dressed in factory-provided blue smocks, parade their status through the streets. Drawing a sharp contrast with the old way, sheepish cane cutters often perform the unmanly chore of bringing lunchboxes to their working wives at the plant...
...last cliché died away, a sheepish realization dawned that about all the U.S. had witnessed was a demonstration of how tautly its racial nerves are stretched. There was, nonetheless, a silver lining: some of the Southern bus lines that prematurely took down their segregation signs found the new arrangement working so well that they decided to leave things that...
...mostly serious business, Britain's former Laborite Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, 68, took a breather in Malaya, was snared in a Kuala Lumpur nightspot by a nifty, wild-hipped dancer billed as the Cuban H-Bomb. As flashbulbs popped, she bussed him moistly. Tourist-on-the-Loose Morrison, sheepish but happy, said: "I had no time to defend myself." Then he had a grim afterthought: "I hope this picture doesn't get back to England." Later, as most British newspaper readers chuckled over the picture, Morrison's stay-at-home wife Margaret gamely commented: "After...
...Washington last week, with a somewhat sheepish grin, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles confided to his weekly press conference that he too was a diplomat who owned a rod. Dulles was saying that he did not object to fingerprinting-a bureaucratic procedure that strikes Europeans as degrading. Why? Because he himself had submitted to fingerprinting every year to get a permit for his .38-cal. Smith & Wesson, serial number 242332. "What do you use a revolver for?" gasped one of the reporters. "Fortunately, I haven't had to use it at all," replied John Foster Dulles. He explained...
Maybe on summer mornings now, he manages a sheepish smile for his wife...