Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ivory-colored costumes perform ceremonial dances, cheering wildly at basketball games, and listening with hushed attention to speeches by black-turbaned, silk-robed village scholars. Throughout the country citizens were urged to pay even more attention to the ancient Confucian code of ethics. Heads of families were told to shun frivolous entertainments (chess games and orchid exhibitions are permissible), and soldiers were warned that nightclubs and cabarets are morally off-limits to them. Girls were forbidden to wear tight blue jeans. Everyone was exhorted to seek more knowledge, aspire to greater integrity...
...thoroughly alarmed. When he got the full report from Tracerlab, he telephoned the Northways and McVeys, told them to buy new clothes, take showers, put on the new clothes and get out of their houses. Both families moved to motels. Their secret was out, and their neighbors began to shun them as if radioactivity were as catching as smallpox...
Kansas City's Topic A was a 1% tax that the city government wanted to levy on earnings so that suburbanites can be forced to pay for the upkeep of the city they inhabit by day and shun by night. In Hollywood the swimming-pool set, thousands strong, responded to an unseasonable temperature in the 80s by flicking winter's debris off the water. Los Angeles and Brooklyn joined in the guessing about whether the Dodgers would really move West. Detroiters based buoyant hopes on the first signs of a heavy spring market for 1957 cars (see BUSINESS...
...varying approaches of the two parties to the nature of the Presidency. Currently this theoretical question seems clouded with partisanship and emotion, as President Eisenhower seeks to justify his claims that he is fit for another term by his premise that the Chief Executive can and should shun the role of an aggressive leader...
...surface, bouncing along on three small hunks of hull. Air flows under the almost flat bellies, and the boats try their best to take off. Almost any bump can send them soaring. In a qualifying run for last year's Gold Cup, Driver Lou Fageol rode Slo-Mo-Shun V into an airborne loop, parted company with his boat, got beaten up so badly when he slapped the water that he quit racing on the spot. In a qualifying run with Slo-Mo IV last week, Driver Joseph Taggart ran into the rippling wake of a small patrol boat...