Word: staining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Worldwide superstition long decreed that almost all abnormalities in newborn children-from port-wine stain to the absence of a limb-were the result of shock suffered by the mother during pregnancy. Medical science seemed to demolish these old wives' tales, but now, as a result of exact, deductive reasoning, it is coming to believe that in some few cases, at least, the old wives were right...
...Every Friday they paid me fifty lovely dollars, less withholding, less social security, less retirement benefits, less hospitalization, and I could do just about anything I liked with the change. My husband, Bill . . . worked a little farther down Fifth [and] except for an occasional ink stain, his hands never got dirty...
...Says Britannus to Cleopatra in Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra: "In war we stain our bodies blue; so that though our enemies may strip us of our clothes and our lives, they cannot strip us of our respectability...
...most eloquent of the abolitionists was yellow-haired Bevanite Sydney Silverman, whose sarcastic, extreme left-wing speeches usually irritate the House; in this debate he heard a rare cheer as he urged "free men, free women, free Members of Parliament in a free society to wipe this dark stain from our statute books...
...Have we fallen so low?" cried the Paris-Presse. "After the insults and tomatoes that greeted Guy Mollet in Algeria, nothing more was needed to stain the regime than a brawl between the representatives of the people...