Word: yearning
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...college." Said one: "Our real aim-to grow intellectually-is blocked by this terrific marks-for-college hassle.'' Fearful that "every tenth of a point is crucial," students were cramming so hard for objective exams and atomized answers that no time remained for searching study. What students yearn for, says Mallery, is a way of "seeing some point, some design, of making some discovery oneself...
...that Mr. Wyndham-Gittens's "face and eyes would be a fortune to any tragedy queen on the stage." Be that as it may, his eyes and face during those speeches of sinister irony which lead to the murder of the King were not such as one would yearn to meet at dusk in an obscure alley. Mr. Marc Clapp grasped the rusticity of the Watchman's Prologue, heavily freighted with forebodings; Mr. Doane Gardiner, as Herald, a track athlete in private life, entered running at a plausibly pelting long-distance pace, yet with breath enough to deliver quite stunningly...
...Caribbean offers something for everybody. In the bigger centers, new hotels provide the best in air-conditioned comfort and sophisticated food for those who want cocktail-lounge luxury, the dim-lit excitement of a gambling casino, and the best floor shows east of Las Vegas. For those who yearn for nothing more than roughing it in total isolation, there are still remote, palm-fringed beaches. Or the middle-minded may want (and can get) a little of both, with some quaint native life and a steel band thrown in. Today the roster of places to go and the bill...
...sport: a return engagement with the New York Giants, in the title playoff Dec. 30. Last year, it was the Packers who were on the way up, feeling mean and hungry; they had lost the 1960 playoff to the Philadelphia Eagles. This year it is the Giants who yearn for revenge-for last year's crushing 37-0 defeat...
...sunset-pink gown was smashing all right, but it was Princess Margaret's new hairdo that set the crowd at London's glittering Dockland Settlements Ball atwitter. Obviously inspired by some Grecian yearn, it was swept abruptly back from her forehead and fixed with jewel-studded pins above and behind her ears. The effect was a kind of outsized ponytail with the ends curled back along Meg's shapely neck. "It can't be all her," whispered one Lady, smelling a royal rat. "Of course it's not," said another. Only her hairdresser knew...