Word: shunned
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...member of the minority, feels the force of his enemy at school when his classmates shun him. His mother's love is powerless to help, his father is resigned. But a fable he is told gives him insight into his enemy. It tells of Germany's Kaiser, who was presented with some elks by the Czar of Russia and tried to duplicate their natural habitat. But they all died, because they missed the stimulation of the wolves who had preyed on them...
...sisters shun the seamy side of Hollywood with Victorian primness. They are less interested in Charlton Heston's love life than in how he kept fit for all those chariot rides in Ben-Hur. "This means a lot to the reader," Reba says...
Broad and muscular (5 ft. 8½ in., 175 Ibs.), Muncey started racing outboard motorboats at 14, first drove a limited hydroplane in 1947, when he broke in on smaller boats with 65 m.p.h. top speed. Eight years later, Designer Ted Jones, whose Slo-Mo-Shun IV revolutionized hydro design in 1950, gave Muncey his first crack at the really big boats by picking him to drive the first of Owner Rhodes's Miss Thriftway hydros. Muncey barely missed winning the Gold Cup his first time out, then came on to win in both...
Though she became known as "the Fourth Warner Brother." Stonewall Davis had to fight for literate scripts and intelligent directors. In her most distinguished films-notably, The Old Maid, The Letter, The Little Foxes, All About Eve-she played grueling, unsympathetic parts that most other actresses would shun. Today, living in California and Maine, Mother Goddam admits that she has been "uncompromising, peppery, untractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile and ofttimes disagreeable." In a line that only Bette Davis could deliver, on or off screen, she concludes: "I suppose I'm larger than life...
Smart Whip. Within a year of his election he was promoted to assistant whip, one of a band of Commons corporals charged with enforcing party discipline. Most ambitious young politicians shun the role, since whips are so heavily burdened with party duties that they have little chance to make their mark in the House, Heath leaped at the job, which he saw as a unique opportunity to master the subtle inner mechanisms of Parliament and party. Thanks to a natural and sometimes ruthless flair for handling men and anticipating trouble, he rose rapidly through the whips' ranks until...