Word: arching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Leverett cry of 'Gore or War,' coming just a year after its last outbreak, must be a case of seasonal aggressions in the Hutch. The proposed tower, resting upon a feeble arch, would be as shaky as are these fabricated claims. Winthrop's Gore Hall will remain impervious even if the Leveretts, having tried in vain to beg or steal, return to element and burrow...
...water. He has tilted with eloquence and venom at many an Irish figure and foible in his plays and in the massive six-volume autobiography poured out over the past 15 years (TIME, Nov. 15). Ireland banned four of the volumes, but the Irish theater knows no censorship. Arch-Individualist O'Casey was free last week to speak his unconventional piece from the stage...
Guinness has perfected the role with what one might consider too much practice, so this picture, like the others, is something of a minor gem. It fails only in capturing the true flavor of Chesterton's gentle detective tales. The concept of an arch-criminal brought to rights by an equally archdetective (an amateur, at that) is not of our era, with its low-keyed police efficiency. In all Europe there is only one man whose intellect can cope with the man who for ten years has pilfered art treasures without leaving the police any more of a clue than...
Voting against the protectionists this time was none other than Arch-Protectionist Dan Reed, who had explained earlier: "Last year, when I had a desperate fight on tax revision and other legislation, the distinguished gentleman from Tennessee [Jere Cooper] was in the minority. I asked him to cooperate with me for a tight rule to get the legislation through. He did it. I told him I would-" Reed came to the hated word, then plunged ahead, "-reciprocate." Reed kept his promise, even though it cost him dearly. His was the deciding vote...
Congress. A speech by erstwhile arch-reactionary Cain last month was inserted in the Congressional Record by erstwhile archliberal Senator Hubert Humphrey...