Word: weltered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theatrical technique into September Song a la Walter Huston. Then it sidles off into a calypso tempo (Man, Man Is for the Woman Made), goes serious again when Margo dramatizes a mother's prayer (from Irwin Shaw's Sons and Soldiers), winds up in a welter of straw-hatted vaudeville routines and a big burst of applause...
...favor the unexpected slogan, the daring phrase, and the clever metaphor. After discarding a welter of potential winners I finally penned this entry, "I want to go to Niagara Falls and see the whole cast of Rose Marie go over the Falls in a Cinemascopic Barrel...
...quietly began to cry. Unmoved, Rubirosa curled his lip and told her: "Get out! I don't need you!" Zsa Zsa went-by taxi straight to Rubirosa's Paris home, where she was a house guest. By late next afternoon, their little spat was lost in a welter of cooing. Zsa Zsa, looking wan but well, cantered off with Rubi for a pastoral horseback ride through the burgeoning Bois de Boulogne...
...present English 10, the department's basic survey course, does not really answer either need. While a vast improvement over the old English 1, which raced through English literature, confusing students with a welter of minor names and works, English 10 has ridden the pendulum too far in the swing of reaction. It is mostly a Great Authors course...
...this period that the clubs began to change in character. The Pudding gave up much of its attempt at a scholarly tone and Porcellian members began to consider the background of its candidates as well as their wit or agreeable character. This was the beginning of a welter of Greek-letter fraternities. Phi Beta Kappa had been the first in 1776, but when other fraternities appeared they followed the lead of the established local clubs and emphasized the social over the intellectual...