Word: unkind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regular fella, Bill?" "He certainly isn't a chip off the old block, Herb." Tom Lee's reputation as an "off-horse, not a regular guy" is established at once--crudely, with dialogue that is blatantly expository. His schoolmates don't speak like human beings, not even like unkind human beings...
...league where almost every school is a symbol of state pride, the rivalry between Michigan and M.S.U. became understandably bitter. This week the two rivals meet again, and Michigan's campus will be littered with signs reading "Cream MOO U," an unkind reference to State's beginnings as a cow college...
...Illusions. Despite such unkind cuts, upstart State now has $65 million worth of new buildings, including such symbols of affluence as a new library, an 18-hole golf course and a soccer team. In 1954, when Munn moved up to the post of athletic director, Duffy succeeded him on the football hot seat. In three seasons on the job, Duffy's curly auburn hair has picked up a heavy sprinkling of grey, but he shows no outward signs of pressure...
...eviction stoically, Paula indulged in some fond reminiscences of her late big brother: "He was kind to me when father died. He took me to my first opera-Lohengrin. But he made me stick to my studies. When we were children, he would tell me that if anyone was unkind to me he would protect me." Had she ever foreseen Hitler's rise to Führer? "No," said she with a smile. "But he was always a man who knew what he wanted." So saying, she turned back to her typewriter and her memoirs...
...readers south of the border have, I must admit, been so favorable. Peru's President Manuel Odria sometimes thought TIME'S frank reporting unkind, but he never did anything worse in reprisal than to nickname our Lima correspondent, Thomas A. Loayza, "Mal Tiempo." In Argentina, Juan Perón found TIME'S views of his dictatorship so infuriating that he arrested our correspondents, banned the magazine for six years (1947-53). But that did not keep TIME out of the country. Our circulation in Uruguay, across the River Plate, trebled. Argentines crossed the river to smuggle TIME...