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Word: sheepishly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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...sharply: "Say you're angry, not just disappointed -say it!" Suddenly Bob was pounding the pillow ferociously, half sobbing: "I'm angry at you, angry because you were so brutal. Why did you have to do it? Why?" Then he was in control again, looking a little sheepish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Weekend Encounter: Strength from the Group | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...Yonkers, N.Y., supported mainly by his lecture fees, Gus Hall, general secretary of the American Communist Party, probably figured his needs included a little extra cash. He bought a New York State lottery ticket, and last week he found himself the winner of $500. Hall was not a bit sheepish about having indulged in such a capitalistic vice. To those who charged him with doctrinal impurity, he replied: "Marx said that the capitalist system creates its own grave diggers. Well, this is money for a few more shovels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Red Shovels | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...neat middle-aged executive peers out from the television screen. "Hello," he says, his face crinkling into a sheepish grin. "I'm from General Telephone." Boos and hisses explode off-camera. "Now, I'm aware that General Telephone provides less than adequate service." Plop. A rotten tomato slides down his chin. "But we're spending $200 million in California this year on improving our service." He is hit with an egg. "Cables, switches, personnel, everything." A cream pie splatters over his face. "Thank you for your patience," he mumbles through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Mea Culpa Campaign | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

...male principals perform in one consistent style: sheepish. Montand croons his numbers with the air of a man who wishes that he, too, were back in some earlier incarnation. Nicholson's part is at once minuscule and a giant trip backward from Easy Rider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: ESPeculiarities | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...friendliness was there last Saturday night when James Taylor-tall, almost lanky, with his shirttail out, wearing orange socks and sandals-walked onto the Sanders stage. He sat down and gazed at the packed house. He hesitated, and after a simple, sheepish "hi," he took the audience into his mind for what later seemed the shortest of times...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Music James Taylor | 4/29/1970 | See Source »

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