Word: sidelong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic victories last November, said the President at his press conference last week, had sadly led him to believe that the people were not "too much concerned about inflation. But I think they have changed their minds." Ike's sidelong glance at one of the darkest moments of his Administration betrayed not at all the fact that White House staffers are wearing earsplitting grins behind closed doors, marveling at the too-good-to-last Administration success with the Democratic 86th Congress. Not only had the balanced budget carried the day, but in the U.S. Senate, spawning ground...
...Gissing's New Grub Street, is set in London's "grey and grisly filth and fog," where the lamps seem fueled by sewer gas, and Nicholas Crabbe alone shines by the unflickering integrity of his own malice. Crabbe, "as still and alert as his eponym," making his sidelong way through the bitter brine and marine fauna of a demented imagination, is a memorable creature...
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Cartoon characters join a few selected actors, singers and musicians in a sidelong glance at Tchaikovsky. For the benefit of amateur electronic engineers, the program will be broadcast in stereophonic sound, utilizing AM and FM radio as well...
...reborn in a better place.'' In Tokyo last year, an appeal for nondiscrimination brought offers from a number of small business firms to hire etas. But of 40 who were hired, all save two quit in less than a year because they were unable to stand the sidelong glances and open contempt of their fellow workers...
...made a long and continuing study of the subject, and is himself the object of study by his subjects. As soon as he appears on a Harlem sidewalk, the street becomes crowded with chicks. The young ones merely ask for his autograph; older ones pass with glittering, sidelong glances beneath lowered lashes...