Word: weatherbeaten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the outside, the weatherbeaten brick building on Mad River in Waterbury, Conn., looks like one of those venerable edifices in an old New Eng land mill town. Inside, the company that makes its headquarters there has won an entirely different image. Under Chief Executive Officer Malcolm Baldrige, the 166-year-old Scovill Man ufacturing Co. has become one of the fastest growing enterprises...
...weatherbeaten, seafaring sort of man--leaned over, dipped his knife into the butter (which comes in little pewter buckets) and spread some onto his muffin. The muffin crumbled...
...fact, Anna Christina Olson, and until her death last week of a heart attack at the age of 74, very few people had ever seen her in person, although millions know her from Wyeth's work. A reclusive spinster who lived in a weatherbeaten grey homestead in Cushing, Me., up the road a piece from the house in which Wyeth and his family have summered for many years, Christina Olson was severely crippled by polio in childhood. Nonetheless, she supported herself for most of her life as a seamstress, earned a local reputation as a fine cook...
...Thank You." Johnson, squinting at the rows of lean, weatherbeaten men who crowded around the makeshift stand, told them: "I came here today for one good reason: simply because I could not come to this part of the world and not come to see you." Added the President: "I give you my pledge: We shall never let you down, or your fighting comrades, or the 15 million people of South Viet Nam, or the hundreds of millions of Asians who are counting on us to show here-here in Viet Nam-that aggression doesn't pay, and that aggression...
Like Ride the High Country, Lonely Are the Brave is about a Westerner whom civilization has made an anachronism. The film is a western in spirit and setting but not in theme. Kirk Douglas plays a weatherbeaten cowpoke with mighty few cows left to poke. He is a loner, a maverick with a fence complex: he sees fences everywhere and hates them always. When he finds that an old pal is behind one-in jail-Douglas gets drunk, tangles with a barroom psycho, and manages to be thrown into the same hoosegow. He proposes to hacksaw some time...