Word: sinistere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Not mere bargain hunters, but students of intellectual history and sociological problems thronged the monthly book clearance sale of Widener Library yesterday, noting sinister trends barometric of national catastrophe.
More sinister is the Toledo jam. After each nickel the player inserts, he jams the coin plunger in as hard as possible. Eventually the spring returning the plunger in as hard as possible. Eventually the spring returning the plunger weakens, fails to work, and the swindler enjoys some ill-gotten...
Among the few U.S. novels that did not suffer from paucity of style as well as poverty of theme was Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion, a funny and tragic little story of children in the West. Another was Bend Sinister, Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant nightmare...
"This term 'bedside manner' is generally used with a sneer, as if there were something sinister about it. But it comes from kindness, sympathy, gentleness, and the capacity to inspire confidence.
"Is not this militaristic old man letting himself be carried away with conceit? . . . Honest people throughout the world did not believe that militant reaction would raise its arm against the U.N. so soon. It is this sinister duty that has been taken on his own shoulders by the Shylock of...