Word: sneer
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...cooling corpses, and nine major outbreaks of violence. Hero No. 1 (Fonda), a sort of Good Bad Guy, is a notorious gunman who wears gold-handled Colts. The townspeople of Warlock ask him to protect them from Villain No. 1 (Tom Drake), a Bad Bad Guy with a slow sneer, a fast draw, and plenty of sneaking dry-gulchers on his payroll. Unfortunately, Hero No. 1 refuses to take the job without his sidekick. Villain No. 2 (Quinn), a G.B.G. who turns out to be a B.B.G.-the sort of lowdown skunk that makes his girl friend keep...
...leaves him without a train to serve the town. The horrified townspeople turn against the heroine. Has the villain triumphed? As far as the spectator is concerned, there was never any contest. Who could prefer a conventionally pretty Hollywood Belinda to the most hilarious Rassendale who ever slept in sneer-curlers...
Most Indians have no desire to go back to the home country: third-or fourth-generation Indians like to think of themselves as "brown Africans." Because of their devotion to large families ("If we have only four or five children," explains one Uganda tailor, "our neighbors sneer at us and say we are too poor to have any more"), the Indian population in East Africa shot up 74% in the past ten years. "The Asians," the Asians say, "are in Africa to stay." So far, the whites have grudgingly let them, but some Asians are beginning to wonder: What about...
...Reporter Smith pocketed the guest list, copied from place cards, Mobster Giancana grumbled volubly on. He had a sneer for congressional investigating committees ("They couldn't catch me for a year; I like to hide from them"), a boost for syndicated crime ("What's wrong with the syndicate? Two or three of us get together on some deal and everybody says it's a bad thing. But those businessmen do it all the time and nobody squawks"), the back of his hand for the draft board that rated him a constitutional psychopath in 1943: "Who wouldn...
...foreign policy of the 1950s. Subject at issue: the crisis of Berlin. Key debater: Connecticut's white-maned Senator Thomas John Dodd, 51, freshman Democrat making his maiden speech. Dodd aimed eloquent oratorical guns at critics who "attack our policy as too rigid and inflexible," and those who sneer at a U.S. foreign policy based on moral principles. Before he had taken his seat, he had crossed swords with such eminent senior Democratic defenders of flexibility as Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Montana's Mike Mansfield, assistant majority leader...