Word: squinting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reinforced by the unexpectedly effective performance of Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell, upset Tory plans for a quiet election and turned the three-week campaign into the toughest-talking election battle since Labor's 1945 victory over Winston Churchill. Said Labor's "Nye" Sevan: "I have seen the squint in [Macmillan's] soul." Macmillan himself, harking back to an old description of Hugh Gaitskell as "a desiccated calculating machine," gleefully cracked: "I still think he is rather desiccated, but his reputation as a calculator is gone with the wind. His promises are the gambler's last throw...
...program includes changes in "product, pricing and production." On the editorial side, said Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce, the LIFE of the '60s will be taking as its province "all things human, and revealing these things sometimes through the eye of highest scholarship, sometimes through the squint of humor, and always, we hope, through the eyes of the heart. In putting out this magazine, only our convictions must remain firm. All else-tradition, technique-are game for change...
...have joy," and so his County Mayo is neither postcard-picturesque nor socio-economically underprivileged. He allows the audience to hear it as "superb and wild," but for Pegeen Mike Flaherty, who lives in it, it is "this place where you'll meet none but Red Linahan, has a squint in his eye, and Patcheen is lame in his heel, or the mad Mulrannies were driven from California and they lost in their wits"--not a decent man in the lot. Since Pegeen is a romantic, brainy, and spirited girl (well played by Helena Carroll with the right sort...
...other line to meet it. Like any good gambler, Smith decided to cut his losses on American Overseas by selling it to Pan American for $10.7 million. In 1949 American broke through the dark clouds with net earnings of more than $7,000,000. Thus encouraged, C.R. took a squint into the future and decided to expand again. He placed the first order for 25 of Douglas' big, fast DC-7s, which he got for some $700,000 less than later buyers, used them to begin the first roundtrip, nonstop flights across the continent. American has been...
...What about Squint Sheridan? Did you know...