Word: squinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czech Government in Exile, at which the Kremlin has been looking squint-eyed, presumably because of its slowness in recognizing the Warsaw Government, this week prepared to install itself in the liberated section of Czechoslovakia...
...days the ship crept along an invisible coast. A leather-faced man with icy blue eyes and a perpetual squint strained for the leadsman's cry. Out of the fog that shrouded the Arctic sea, the muffled call came back: "Seven fathoms. ..." Suddenly the leadsman's cry changed: "The bottom has gone away...
...reporter. The first step was to look up Buckingham Palace in the telephone book and call Whitehall 4832. When I got His Majesty's press agent representative on the wire, instead of saying to him 'Hey Butch, how about a squint at the big shot?' I had to call him Sir Eric and couch my request in Sunday language.* It worked...
...civilian clothes ; he prefers SS uniforms. A U.S. reporter who saw him during one of his few appearances in mufti says: "He looked like a professor of agriculture in a Midwest University." He has brief, skinny hair. His pince-nez rimless glasses give his somber blue eyes the precise squint of the clerk of a small-town council who secretly believes he will some day be mayor. He shaves twice daily yet never seems clean-shaven. His jowls flab down to a murderous little chin; the mustache is a respectful miniature of Hitler's. When Hitler's mouth...
With this squint-eyed rewrite of Tennyson, rabble-rousing Senator Gerald P. Nye last week keynoted the New Isolationism...