Word: pluck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eventually, Defoe's cannibals appear in Tournier's book, too, intending to eat a captive. Crusoe II frightens them off with gunpowder and English pluck, names the captive Friday, and sets about turning him into a proper British slave. He succeeds to the extent that Friday learns English and performs complicated chores. But the Negro-Indian half-caste will go no further; he refuses to be a black Englishman. Although he is tireless, he is not diligent. He is clever, but not rational. For him, the Church of England, punitive ditch digging and goatskin trousers are merely...
...going to back down," Knowles said. "That's what they want me to do." One Senate head count showed that no more than 25 members opposed the nomination; another estimate put the opposition at ten. Finch assured Nixon that his appointee had the pluck and wit to ride out the storm. Meanwhile, the A.M.A.'s lobby operation was not idle. Hints began to circulate that Knowles proposed socialized medicine. Congressmen found that the A.M.A. was even propagandizing their family doctors...
When Swedish Starlet Britt Ekland, 26, first announced her intention to divorce peripatetic Comedian Peter Sellers, 43, she pleaded a case that would pluck at any mother's heartstrings. "You can't imagine," she wailed, "how exhausting it is transporting a baby, a nanny and all your possessions all over the world." So saying, Britt left Peter and began transporting baby, nanny and possessions all over the world-off to New York for the filming of Britt's latest movie, Stiletto, then down to Puerto Rico for more shooting, then back to London for the Sellers...
...GROUP IS PULSING now, late in the last set. Jeff Beck draws out a burr till it nearly grates and follows it with a melodious burst. Doing 'Beck's Boogey' he comes swiftly down the frets pausing only to pluck a little at each stop, then he goes into the theme which sounds a little like 'Yankee Doodle' stops midway through with finger raised, and resumes the plucking with the drums still beating. Near the end of the number he finally completes the theme--it still sounds like 'Yankee Doodle' but it's brilliant, an improvisation worthy of the best...
...measurements, her "dazzling" smile, "pretty" legs and "clear" skin, the London fashion magazine Nova nonetheless lamented last week that Britain's Queen Elizabeth II-at 42 -is "by no means a glamour girl." So Nova took the problem to the French for frank answers. "Pluck the eyebrows," ordered Carita of Paris. "Mold the cheekbones . . . The eyes must be emphasized ... A little light in the hair . . . Mouth toned down . . . Transparent makeup." While Courrèges decked the Queen out in a modestly mod dress and jacket, Alexandre cropped her royal mane and Roger Vivier prescribed a pair of shoes that...