Word: annoyance
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...with Ceausescu in secret talks. Beyond the expectable communiqué concerning "subjects of mutual interest," outsiders could only guess at the real substance of the conversations. After all, there were plenty of signs that Rumania was taking an active role in European Communist affairs-a role that could only annoy Moscow. Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer was in Geneva ostensibly for a "cure"-but possibly in some connection with the talks that Averell Harriman was conducting with the International Red Cross about U.S. prisoners in North Viet Nam. Rumania's First Vice President Emil Bodnaras was huddling with...
...from ordinary laymen. Lovers of problem solving, they are apt to play chess at lunch or doodle in algebra over cocktails, speak an esoteric language that some suspect is just their way of mystifying outsiders. Deeply concerned about logic and sensitive to its breakdown in everyday life, they often annoy friends by asking them to rephrase their questions more logically...
...exhibition meet, feeling "a little tipsy," she plunged into the pool splashed 100 meters, surfaced-and discovered that she was swimming in a 200-meter race. The resulting suspension was lifted in time to let her compete in the 1964 Olympics, where she did her bit to annoy officials even further by disobeying orders not to march in the opening-day parade. She also refused to wear her regulation Olympic swimsuit because it was "too tight across my bust...
...Born to Be Blue is the best since the late Mildred Bailey made it her own. While the California Suite is billed as Torme's "major composition" on this album, it is memorable chiefly as the sort of thing in which Lyricist Torme rhymes La Jolla with "annoy you." But the songs -wistful, full of tender despair-make Side 2 worth the price...
...Panama, well-intentioned Presidents seem always destined either for assassination, like General José Antonio Remón (1952-55) or simply to be broken, like Chiari. Robles' ambitious ideas are bound to annoy the country's far right, and his evident desire to get along with the U.S. is sure to enrage the ultranationalists and far leftists who still talk revolution. "I give us 18 months to get things rolling," says a Robles Cabinet minister. "If we have not car ried out our pledges by that time, the government will fall...