Word: utters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Pankrac, Oatis was taken to the U.S. Embassy in Prague, and after breakfast with Ambassador George Wadsworth, was driven to the U.S. zone of Germany. To newsmen who met him at the border, Oatis, thin and pale, seemed bewildered. On his face was the look of utter confusion that imprisoned men often wear when first confronted with the outside world again. Newsman Oatis had been cut off so completely that he did not know Eisenhower was President, that Stalin was dead, that he himself had become a symbol for the free press of the West. When one reporter greeted...
...drab little fable with the moral the Beauty Lies in the Heart. With the aid of a spectral Samaritan, Dorothy Fields proves the point by shedding the bags under her eyes when she learns the meaning of love. Duvivier makes the whole thing pretty intense, with the actors expressing utter banalities with deadly seriousness. When the embittered hero, for example, declares: "I wanted to be President!" he sounds as determined as Harold Stassen...
...passion that it seems more important that anything else. He, who never existed, dreams back to a world of chivalry and personal trust which also never existed. His language should be direct and unequivocal; but Chapman and Coxe have given him too many flowery metaphors, words he should never utter. Yet Stewart is able to put the general's spirit into these lines...
Evidently, this is another attempt to assert the utter superiority and distinctiveness of the ectomorph--in Harvard's world, at any rate. Everyone knows that the seats in the Stadium, at New Lecture Hall, and at the Indoor Athletic Building were designed solely to accommodate ectomorphs. Now it appears that the style sultans in New York and London are making clothes expressly designed to shrink the masculine form...
...called in by Mr. Conant in the spring of his third year, he expected a polite handshake and best wishes in his new job, wherever that might be. When Conant offered him the job at Lowell House, Perkins recalls that he was so surprised that he could only utter a one-word expletive, which would hardly bear repeating...