Word: smoldering
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Bottle-green eyes smolder malevolently, and thin lips curl in a perpetual pout. "I was born surly," says Roger Eugene Maris, "and I'm going to stay that way. Everything in life is tough." But last week, as he has all season, Yankee Outfielder Maris knew just where to direct his sullen anger: at a baseball. Leaning into a low fastball thrown by Baltimore's Milt Pappas, Maris sent a whistling drive soaring high into the rightfield seats. It was his 59th homer in 154 games; he had come within one heart-stopping wallop of tying baseball...
...newspapers that smolder indignantly over the transgressions of others, said Estabrook, might well take a good look at their own: "Recently, the press became very exercised about morality when Charles Van Doren put on his show of contrition. But our indignation would be better founded, and more credible, if we also managed to muster a few olfactory shudders about the garbage in our own backyard. Better yet, we might even try to clean...
...Barn. In Philadelphia, officials gathered to kick off Fire Prevention Week were interrupted in mid-ceremony when a mechanical replica of Mrs. O'Leary's celebrated lantern-kicking cow short-circuited, began to smolder...
GONE are the days when tall, aloof Nordic blondes dominated the beauty contests. Last year a warm-skinned lovely from Peru was crowned Miss Universe and last week a fiery Miss Colombia won the title. For the switch from underplayed femininity to the bold smolder, see THE HEMISPHERE, Fire...
Last week the bold smolder won again; Miss Universe was Luz Marina Zuloaga, 19, of Manizales, Colombia, where the coffee comes from. And for the second year running a Miss Brazil came in second...