Word: surly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chevalier's 7,000-word translation, the phrase "as complicated as a Rube Goldberg invention" became "more complicated than existentialism." A "hoot-nanny" emerged as a corrida (i.e., bullfight). Rose's untranslatable "razzle-dazzle and razzmatazz" was altered into the equally untranslatable "plaisanter sur des plaisanteries plaisantes." Rose's laconic account of the end of a riot at his Texas Centennial Exposition ("The brawl was over") was elaborately transformed into "My savage cowboys became as well-behaved as [Paris] street urchins on the day of their First Communion...
Twilight contains just about everything that an adolescent mind could want, in cluding characters such as Lady Orabella Sax, Arethusa Lever, Captain Elias Wild-blood and Alden Galahad Paget. What's more, Author Steen lays bare the very sur face of their natures: "Superbly nude, [Dorset Flood] lounged elegantly on the window sill"; "Plump and glossy as a young calf, there was something in [Polly Bowling] that vibrated...
Inalienable Right. In Ilocos Sur Province, P.I., officials protested that the recent ban on hip-swinging dances violated "Freedom of Locomotion...
...affair. We're guarding our frontier." Actually Calderon had issued his revolutionary proclamation in Managua, Tacho's capital. Dissident Costa Ricans had been training openly at Rivas in southern Nicaragua. Costa Rican intelligence sources reported concentrations of troops and barges at San Juan del Sur on Tacho's Pacific coast and Bluefields on the Caribbean...
...means. He runs an undertaking business, smokes big cigars, campaigns against Perón, and races automobiles. In Buenos Aires one midnight last month, Domingo stepped on the starter of his 1939 Chevrolet and waited for the Gran Premio de la America del Sur to begin. So did 137 other drivers * in their Fords, Chevies and a sprinkling of Plymouths, Nashes and Buicks. At the signal, they roared off into the night...