Word: sink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then you think the olive's density is less than the vermouth's and it wouldn't rise before because the mixture hadn't settled. If you are right, and we stir the mixture up, the olive should sink again," I said slyly...
...Wire Service, it was clear that Tennessee Ernie was a new kind of Ford in TV's future. Jaws slack and chipmunk eyes watering, his mouth listing to port in a mustachioed half-smile, Ernie could slam into a fair-weather tune with authority, sink back languidly into some corn pone-and-molasses badinage about his pea-pickin' cousins (he claims 150 kinsfolk) or how to make porcupine meat balls. He could turn a muffed line into an "Ernie-ism" ("I'm as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs...
...their hands the old school tie has become a garrote for genteel traditions. Moral and political neutralists, they expend their limited energies avoiding social commitments. As writers, they have taken fhe drawing-room comedy and turned it into kitchen-sink satire. As a new social breed, they have spearheaded the revolt of the Non-U's (for Non-Upper Class), a petty intelligentsia of teachers, technicians, journalists, veterinary surgeons and welfare officers, characterized (in the words of one critic) by "their long-playing records and their ponytail-haired wives." Drab, insular and irritable, the "new men" suggest that...
...Holy Terrors is as good an example of his method as one could ask. It is beyond question a literary tour de force. It is the story of a beautiful brother and sister, who, orphaned in adolescence, sink deeper and deeper into an ingrown world of dreams until they destroy themselves and the friends whom they fascinate. The psychological intricacies of this tale and the plausibilities of Cocteau's conclusions are interesting subjects for the discussions of many Cambridge types. But the clinical validity of the book has little bearing on its artistic stature...
MICHAEL : I, Michael, shall go and order the heavenly hosts to let him walk on earth without any protection . . . And should he sink down on his knees with the sweat breaking out of him like drops of blood under the burden of the curse of being Man, I shall strengthen him only from afar that he might continue to suffer, just as he gave consolation to the believers, consoling them in order that they might continue to suffer...