Word: smoldering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspapers that smolder indignantly over the transgressions of others, said Estabrook, might well take a good look at their own: "Recently, the press became very exercised about morality when Charles Van Doren put on his show of contrition. But our indignation would be better founded, and more credible, if we also managed to muster a few olfactory shudders about the garbage in our own backyard. Better yet, we might even try to clean...
...Barn. In Philadelphia, officials gathered to kick off Fire Prevention Week were interrupted in mid-ceremony when a mechanical replica of Mrs. O'Leary's celebrated lantern-kicking cow short-circuited, began to smolder...
GONE are the days when tall, aloof Nordic blondes dominated the beauty contests. Last year a warm-skinned lovely from Peru was crowned Miss Universe and last week a fiery Miss Colombia won the title. For the switch from underplayed femininity to the bold smolder, see THE HEMISPHERE, Fire...
Last week the bold smolder won again; Miss Universe was Luz Marina Zuloaga, 19, of Manizales, Colombia, where the coffee comes from. And for the second year running a Miss Brazil came in second...
These comparisons do not tell the whole story, for they leave out the way Hungary's brave defiance of superior odds has seized the world's imagination. But in Poland, say all reports, the fires of freedom smolder as hotly as in Hungary. They are kept in check by the way in which Communist Gomulka has achieved a provisional and perilous independence. The stir and prod of the Polish people on Gomulka, and the concessions he must make, are the best chance that Poland will achieve a peaceful transition from puppet state to the Finland model of cautious...