Word: teeter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from their notable acting strengths, the sheer likability of Michele Lee and Ken Howard is infectious. She is a warm, supple sprig of femininity; he is a tongue-tied Adam trying to invent a word for love. A playgoer ends up half wishing that the pair could swap their teeter-totter affair for the merry-go-round of marriage. · T.E. Kalem
...actors had less limited styles, then perhaps they could bring it off from beginning to end. The old woman has fine gestures but a redundant voice, while the man has the voice but not the gestures. His idea of old age is to teeter and lurch stiffly, like a poorly-rendered Walter Brennan--stilted and mechanical. The woman acquires a more natural and varied style of movement and sticks to it: it works better. But her grandmotherly, shivering voice begins to drone after a while. Her husband's voice on the other hand, takes on a detached, radio-announcer tone...
...wring a few further trade concessions from Japan and the Common Market nations. It was a high-stakes gamble, since their plan ran the risk of undermining confidence in the entire new system of currency exchange rates worked out in the Smithsonian agreement. Last week that system began to teeter, and the Administration decided to take what it could get and end the suspense. In Brussels, U.S. negotiators reached agreement with Common Market officials on several key trade issues. In Washington, Connally promised to send to Congress this week the long-awaited bill raising the price of gold and thus...
...Skinner, professor of Psychology; Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School; Philip Stewart, assistant professor of French; Jack M. Stein, professor of German; Michael J. Tannenbaum, associate professor of Physics; Karl V. Teeter, professor of Linguistics, Department Chairman; James C. Thomson, Jr., lecturer on History; Thomas Von Foerster, assistant professor of Physics; Edward W. Wagner, professor of Korean Studies; Michael Walzer, professor of Government, Chairman of Social Studies; Donald P. Warwick, lecturer in Social Relations; Philip M. Weinstein, assistant professor of English; James D. White, assistant professor of Chemistry; George H. Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity; Thomas H. Wilson, professor...