Word: tigerish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia Tech, ranked high among the top ten in polls, had to fight both a muddy field and a tough Florida team, had to settle for a o-o tie. ¶ Princeton, top-heavy favorite to walk off with Ivy League honors, looked less than tigerish against little Lafayette, had to complete a 6y-yd. pass in the last five minutes to pull the game...
...French Dancer Colette Marchand as the rapacious streetwalker who almost drives Lautrec to suicide; Suzanne Flon as the perceptive, understanding model, Myri-ame Hayem; Hollywood's flouncy Zsa Zsa Gabor as man-chasing Singer Jane Avril (in real life, a favorite Lautrec cancan model); Katherine Kath as the tigerish, redheaded dancer Louise Weber...
Wake for the Dead. Conservative civil servants learned to fear Templer's thin-lipped, tigerish sneer. Asians loved it when he looked a prevaricating Asian politician in the eye and said: "You're a stinker." Everywhere he went he was appalled by the indolent attitude of the Europeans. He told a Rotarian audience: "You see today how the Communists work . . . They seldom go to the races. They seldom go to dinner parties or cocktail parties. And they do not play golf." Even as he spoke, the Perak Derby was being run on the track at Ipoh, tin-mining...
...Ollenhauer was born (1901) the son of a Magdeburg mason, and he came up the party ladder during Weimar Republic days. He fled from the Nazis, first to Prague, then to London, and returned home in September 1945. Pudgy, bespectacled, pipe-smoking Ollenhauer has little of Schumacher's tigerish fire, but he is just as stubborn...