Word: utterness
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...meandering four years after love walked in, husky-throated Singing Cinemactress Julie London, ex-wife of Dragnet's Joe Friday, and Composer-Pianist Bobby Troup decided to make a wedding of it (in mid-December), left their joint business manager to utter the thought-provoking explanation: "They suddenly discovered there's no reason not to be married...
...want my girls to know everything," says Mrs. O'Mahony. "My aim is utter perfection." At least in principle, Cygnets learn to discuss abstract art, ask a bishop how he takes his tea, change a diaper, sew up a ball gown, open a bazaar, cook a banquet and, should such perfection overpower onlookers, give first aid. It is assumed that Cygnets will marry, and one lecture tells the girls "How to care for a tired husband fretful after a nasty day at the office...
After three worsening years of acrimony and litigation, the five moderate members of the Little Rock school board-segregationists who believe in complying with Federal law-last week resigned in a mood of "utter hopelessness, helplessness and frustration." Left as the board's sole remaining member: Supreme Court-flouting Segregationist Dr. Dale Alford, who won a larger triumph a fortnight ago, when he captured the House of Representatives' seat of Moderate Congressman Brooks Hays on a write-in vote...
...CRIMSON report of the first Noble Lecture has so thoroughly misrepresented a profound and perceptive message as to make the lecture appear ludicrous. Your reporter's utter lack of comprehension would indicate that the article's absurdity is unintentional. Had he merely taken the thirty seconds necessary to read the printed outline of the lecture provided for everyone in the audience, he could scarcely have produced the disjointed, self-contradictory article that we find on this morning's front page...
...Open Cathedral. The phrases he used when describing the rebels were the sort that no Premier before him had dared to utter. Most of them, he said, had fought "courageously," and he offered them "the peace of the brave" (see box). But he was only willing to discuss a cease-fire with the F.L.N., not to meet their demands for independence. Only by peaceful evolution could the "courageous personality of Algeria" come to exist...