Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should get wrinkled. What am I, a prune?" Every week he puts away handfuls of costly chocolates, most of which have long since settled in a small bulge in the middle of his 5 ft. 3 in., 140-lb. frame. Billy's skin has a worn, beige look, grading to blue under his quick, cold eyes...
...youthful anguish. Her title is borrowed from Poet Dylan Thomas's line: "A process in the weather of the heart turns damp to dry." It is seldom enough that novelists of any age gauge the process so surely. The Weather of the Heart gives some meaning to that worn publisher's tag, "a new writer of distinction...
...they had flush toilets.* &3182;The American Automobile Association, perturbed by the regularity with which pedestrians were colliding with their member cars, hopefully set out to popularize tail lights for the man in the street. The lights, two-inch plastic reflectors, come in red, orange or yellow, can be worn on the wrist, on a handbag or pinned to clothing-preferably just above the rear bumper...
Brazil's Communists, outlawed and barred from their headquarters, felt a little better after the first shock had worn off. The big reason for their sense of relief was that President Dutra's Government had lost the offensive. It had found itself legally unable to finish the Communists by turning their legislators out of Congress and stopping the presses of their raucous Tribuna Popular. Moreover, many a thoughtful Brazilian, with no love for Communism but with a lively memory of dictatorship, had rushed to support the Communist Party's right to exist...
Regarded solely as a contribution to international relations, the effect of "Carmen" is considerable. And Italian-made film with French dialogue and English captions, the over-all result is admirably suited for a showing at Flushing Meadows and the well-worn story should be only a slight drawback. But disregarding its cosmopolitan nature and chalking up the well-ballyhooed sex angle to an over-zealous press agent, there remains little to click any castanets over. Though the New York Times blushingly called it "as lusty a picture as you could wish," Les Brown had a better term a few years...