Word: antagonistically
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...cozies, where U.S. newsmen juggled their cups a bit awkwardly, stood three new 1949-model Morris cars. Peppery Viscount Nuffield, Britain's biggest motormaker, had sent them over by the Queen Mary as an opening bid for the U.S. market and as an answer to an old antagonist...
...antagonist was thin, sandy-haired Leonard Lord, who had gone to work for Nuffield back in 1932. He became Nuffield's chief assistant, was in charge of the far-flung Nuffield organization (Morris, M. G. and Wolseley cars, trucks, etc.). But when Leonard Lord showed that he had a mind of his own, Nuffield quickly kicked him upstairs to run one of his many charities...
...boss of all the world's Communists, Russia's Stalin was the free world's great single antagonist. On balance, Joseph Stalin had a pretty good year. He could score one minor and one major victory. In Czechoslovakia, he had openly seized what he had already possessed in fact. In China, his devoted apostles-Mao Tse-tung, leader of China's Communist Party, and Chu Teh, commander of China's Communist armies-were winning a victory for which they could thank the stupidities of their opponents as much as their own skill. History, which would...
...look, and declares his belief that you resemble a dope or a dumbski or a quisby or a mullethead, that won't be your cue to poke his snoot or even yell for the cops. Instead . . . you should square off and announce with dignity and eloquence that your antagonist is, forsooth, a beanhead, a booby, a chump, a dingbat, a flumadiddy, a filbert, a peanutbrain, a rednecked slob, a rumdum, a stupe, a tinpot...
Talk with the Devil. One thing the Journals make clear: Gide's "insatiable Hell." His daily antagonist is a very real devil. In 1914 he told a friend that what "kept me from believing in the devil was that I wasn't quite sure of hating him." Two years later he confided to his Journals: "When I say: the Evil One, I know what that expression designates just as clearly as I know what is designated by the word God. I draw his outline by the deficiency of each virtue ... he is more intelligent than I, everything...