Word: unbended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ministers laughed so loud that the crystal chandeliers above the conference table tinkled musically. It was not really that funny, but the three lawyers and the orphan gratefully seized the opportunity to unbend...
...telephone conversations and interviews with visiting firemen. He mixes a wicked martini (olive included) evenings 'at home.' Weekends with his wife Both he points his Cadillae toward Osterville on the Cape. There in a twelve-room hideaway (one forthcoming complete with tennis court will overlook the sea) he can unbend briefly. Dean David likes gardening: behind the custom-tailored exterior and million-dollar glad-hand he is fundamentally informal and original-thinking. "He works with stuffed shirts very well indeed," Associate Dean Stanley Teele has noted, "but he doesn't like...
Only once did he unbend, at a bibulous evening in the Hampstead House apartment of Luxembourg's Prince Jean, whose playful guests turned the soda siphons on each other. Also present, and splashed, was Princess Thereza d'Orléans e Bragança, youngest sister of a claimant to Brazil's long extinct throne and of the Comtesse de Paris. Mayfair gossips said that 28-year-old, moderately good looking, very rich Thereza had been picked for Michael's queen by Michael's experienced, appreciative papa, ex-King Carol. Thereza said there...
Piece by piece the audience begins to unbend, soon a species of buying hysteria overtakes them and for a whole there is a regular avalanche of sales. Proceedings cool down a bit, however, after it becomes clear that the so-called limited number of boxes are showing no signs at all of running out, and after a few of the lucky first comers have had a chance to see their prizes. At the end of the show after more blue lights. Russian dancing bears, and suggestive hip wiggles, there file out into the dismal Boston streets many proud possessors...
...disciplined language of the communiqué was scarcely an emotional outburst. But in those words Nimitz had allowed himself to unbend, for the world at large, more than at any previous time in his three years under the immense burdens of duty as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas...