Word: unbendingly
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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...
...like an unbending woman," said her father, but Teresa was too proud ever to unbend. Trapped in the circumscribed respectability of suburban Sydney, she also shrank from the thought of becoming a spinster schoolma'am. At her cousin's wedding, when the other girls fought in a "concupiscent fever" to catch the bride's bouquet, Teresa drew back when she saw their "awful eagerness...
...Hays Office has definitely begun to unbend, gentlemen, and it is high time someone broke forth with a few congratulatory huzzahs. "Honeymoon in Bali," the latest case in point, has Madeleine Carroll; it has faint glimmers of Bali; and it has a script that sometimes scintillates. Of course, it does have Fred MacMurray, too; and it is burdened with a plot; but such things seem to be inevitable. Only when the Message becomes too obvious does the pace sag; Miss Carroll, it seems, has planned her whole life with the mathematical precision of an M. I. T. graduate, and must...