Word: antagonistical
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Last week was particularly rewarding for Peking poster watchers. On Mao's 73rd birthday there appeared, crying aloud, though presumably writ small, since it was 3,000 words in length, the "confession" of President Liu Shao-chi, Mao's principal antagonist in his effort to "purify" Chinese Communism. Liu's "self-criticism," a long-practiced art among Chinese Communists, traced a litany of "sins" reaching back...
...adding increasingly polished stage business. Just before he delivers a cruncher, his tongue licks from the corner of his mouth, his patrician voice rasps into a lower register. Similarly, the elevation of his eyebrows telegraphs the drop of a guillotine blade. Another Buckley tactic-when the antagonist has the floor-is to close his eyes, as if he is hearing insufferable platitudes, or to raise them heavenward, as if to invoke Aquinas against such patent sophistry...
...sanction was the 28-day naval blockade that the U.S. threw around Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis. It was totally effective, but it required 180 ships and cost $44.5 million. Neither Britain nor many other nations today can afford to spend that kind of money to stymie an antagonist...
Success for Novas was doomed even before the session began, thanks to the wiles of Novas' bitter antagonist, ex-Premier George Papandreou. The "Old Fox" had held his own little caucus of Center Union Party Deputies the day before, persuaded 143 of them to vote against Novas when the time came for balloting at the end of the debate. When Parliament convened for the debate, in which Novas had promised to reveal the iniquities of Papandreou's 17 months in office, Papandreou simply ordered his supporters to stay in an anteroom. The infuriated leader of the right-wing...
...chief economic antagonist of the U.S. is, of course, Charles de Gaulle, whose goal is to make Europe look to France instead of to the U.S. Largely because of France's intransigence, the Kennedy Round of tariff-cutting talks in Geneva is deadlocked, dormant, and hopelessly behind schedule. The Common Market delegation in Geneva cannot complete its list of proposed tariff cuts because France has boycotted major meetings of the Six since July...