Word: tumbler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Each morning at 5:30, Ramoo rises and trots off to the village well to bathe himself with buckets of lukewarm, silty water, then returns to his clay-walled hut and squats on the cow-dung floor for breakfast: a thick chapatty (wheat pancake) and a brass tumbler of scalding black tea. Ramoo owns only two bullocks, and with them he plods across his barren acres, dragging a steel-slivered plow designed in prehistory by some Indian prototype who faced the same harsh, crumbling earth. In a year, he raises scarcely enough to feed his bullocks. For lunch Ramoo eats...
...once wrote on the art of loafing, Humorist Nathaniel Benchley (Robert's son) recommended: "Do nothing, but appear busy." His latest novel heeds that advice. Assorted human beings and ghosts scurry frantically about a haunted house in New England. One ghostly incident is followed by another-a flying tumbler, a fleeting shadow, a disembodied goose. Assuming that it is a whale of a joke to have a ghost sink an old curmudgeon's opulent yacht docked outside the house, Benchley lets the ghost sink a second one. The ghosts, to be sure, have more life than the characters...
...Exchequer, James Callaghan, 52, who tried to symbolize new approaches by carrying his speech in a plain manila envelope rather than the traditional battered attache case. Known as "the Mod from the Treasury" because of his sharp wardrobe, Callaghan on this occasion was all business, shunned the customary tumbler of "amber liquid" resorted to by Chancellors during their long, dry budgetary speeches. But Callaghan was less of an innovator in the budget itself. Main points...
...Rapport. Oceanfront stores do a roaring trade in mawkish mementos, such as "the J.F.K. Drinking Glass," a tumbler adorned with a sky-blue caricature of the late President, J.F.K. chocolate-filled gold coins (10?), and a posthumous J.F.K. prayer ("Special Delivery from Heaven," $2.95 gift-boxed). Other big-selling souvenirs include martini shakers cunningly shaped like bedpans, rubber and nylon "Golden Goddess Shrunken Heads," and a coffee-table plaque that reads: GOD BLESS THIS LOUSY APARTMENT. Vacationers stand in line for rococo delicacies ranging from frankfurters stewed in champagne (it says) to chocolate-covered frozen bananas...
...said one, "because they'd never let me come back here again. But it was a dirty, cheating victory. There was oil all over that goddam track." "I had to wipe the oil off my goggles every time I came down the straightaway," complained McCluskey, tossing off a tumbler full of booze. "They had the black flag out, but Agajanian talked them out of it." Said Eddie Sachs, who was driving in his seventh 500: "This is the rottenest victory I've ever seen. The Lotus-Fords were fantastic; they should have won easy." Sachs was still...