Word: sloe
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...dreamy looks and pouty looks, girls with languid smiles and impudent grins, girls with unruly bangs and neat velvety chignons, girls with eyes slanted a little and girls with eyes slanted a lot. Amid all the girls, one stands out in twilight softness. When she first appears, her slow, sloe eyes look down, ever so shy. Then she bounces her head in a pert little Chinese kowtow and the hoarse, sweet husk of her voice sounds hauntingly soft. "Ten thousand benedictions...
...equipped with intimate green lanterns and a sign that reads "No Stags Or Loiterers." Behind the bar, English tavern scenes appear under glass panes on the wall and quart beer bottles are displayed on the liquor shelves. When a student ambles over from the shuffleboard machine to order a sloe gin fizz, the curiosity shown toward this beverage by the others at the bar may compel him to pass the drink around, but he is repaid by the management with a free glass of beer...
Last year, after they won the Little League World Series (TIME, Sept. 2,1957), the Monterrey boys went home to Mexico national heroes. Received at the National Palace in Mexico City by President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, the sloe-eyed little ballplayers were promised scholarships, better jobs for their hard-working fathers and a spanking new Little League stadium by enthusiastic Monterrey (pop. 499,000) citizens. It didn't quite work out that way. There were a few scholarships, but the ballpark is still in the talking stage, and the "better jobs" did not materialize. Coach...
...reed-slim Tonkinese and Annamese maidens of South Viet Nam. But when President Ngo Dinh Diem proclaimed his nation's independence two years ago, his newly enfranchised countrywomen began to remold their personalities under the leadership of the President's keenly intelligent sister-in-law, beauteous, sloe-eyed Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu. With the help of her enormous charm and an occasional whisk of a sandalwood fan, Madame Ngo got herself elected to South Viet Nam's National Assembly, helped elect five other woman Deputies, and launched a drive for legislation banning 1) polygamy, 2) divorce...
...wide as a Caucasian's; half-closed, her lids showed no crease or fold running across them, and her lashes always pointed down. Like other Japanese girls, she had been impressed by the postwar flood of U.S. movies and magazines. Instead of the traditional Japanese ideal of beauty-sloe-eyed, smooth-featured, flat-chested-many of them want to be more like their Western cousins with high noses, round eyes, curly lashes and prominent busts...