Word: slanting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reveals a brilliant extrovert, as compared to Dean Acheson, the brilliant introvert. Secretary Dulles' high, straight-lined, strikingly original capital letters indicate self-assurance and the ability to cope with big problems . . . The fluent illegibility of his other letters with their rounded formation and slightly forward slant shows a swift, uninhibited mentality combined with amiability...
...long arm of Uncle Sosso still throws enough of a scare into Budu to keep him changing residences frequently. At present he is living on the outskirts of Paris, under an assumed name. Seven years of Western freedom have given him a more critical slant on the Stalinist regime, and he is busy on a gloves-off treatment of Uncle Sosso, to be called Stalin Told...
Child's Play. The little-girl dancers, their childish bodies sheathed in golden cloth, moved slowly about the stage, hips back, knees bent and slightly parted, darting their slant eyes, their arms and fingers flowing through a cascade of graceful and sophisticated gestures, all with a slight smile of incredible self-possession. The oldest was 13. The male dancers were much older. In one all-male number, 30 men sat in a circle on the floor, shaking their shoulders in unison, and began a syncopated whisper that worked up into something like a football cheer, while a clown leapt...
...Brooklyn) Smith was in a hospital nursing 37 stitches in her face after an auto crash near Louisburg, N.C. Old New Dealer Paul Porter, now director of economic affairs for the MSA office in Paris, was reported "fine" after an emergency appendectomy which broke up a dinner party. Slant-eyed Actress Veronica Lake had to cancel a summer-theater engagement in Framingham, Mass. because of a slight virus infection. Mrs. Johnnie Ray, bride of the cry-baby singer, left her husband on tour and went to a Buffalo hospital for a pneumonia cure. Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. was nursing...
Working over several dry seasons, Ruz and a gang of laborers slowly cleared away the hard mass of stone and clay that blocked the passageway. The stairs seemed to slant down endlessly. At the 46th step there was a landing from which two galleries, also blocked, led to the sides of the pyramid. They were apparently intended to supply ventilation...