Word: antagonist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Capehart's committee completed its work on the bill, Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, an old Capehart antagonist, proposed that the committee vote its thanks for the chairman's fine work. Said Douglas, with admiration in his voice:"You could not serve under a better chairman. He's fairminded, decent, generous." The Salesman. On the Senate floor last week, one of Capehart's dismayed old friends, Utah's Republican Senator Wallace Foster Bennet, an ex-president of the N.A.M., argued that the U.S. should never again have economic controls except as "the last...
...reorganization bill which the President did not like, Eisenhower-without any public cries of alarm-sent clear word on what he wanted. The G.O.P. leaders, who might have squawked about getting the word so late, quietly shifted positions. Senate Majority Leader Bob Taft, billed as Ike's inevitable antagonist, has to date shown himself to be the Administration's dependable and loyal majority leader. White House-Capitol Hill relations got a new twist when Dwight Eisenhower reached for the phone and called Virginia's Harry Byrd. Thanks, said the President to the Senator, for raising the question...
...better is the dry humor of Stephen Crane's cowpoke story, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. A hard-drinking, fast-shooting old reprobate named Scratchy (Minor Watson), the last bad man left in the little western town of Yellow Sky, is sadly disillusioned when his longtime antagonist, the town marshal (Robert Preston), brings home a bride. Confronted with an unfamiliar atmosphere of respectability, Scratchy resignedly throws away his six-shooter and says farewell once & for all to his glorious gun-toting past. In James Agee's lean adaptation and in some peppery performances, The Bride Comes...
...Chief antagonist of the Board of Directors was Lewis D. Gilbert, who owns stock in 600-odd corporations, including 12 shares in Macy's. Gilbert, questioning just how many of the store's Board of Directors knew about such things as merchandising, forced President Jack I. Straus '21 to admit several of the directors were not familiar with retailing...
...rear and was now withdrawing before French counterattacks. His name: General Vo Nguyen Giap (pronounced Yap). Since the husky voice of Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh disappeared from the Viet Minh propaganda radio two years ago, the French have come more & more to believe that Giap is their chief antagonist in Indo-China...