Word: backhandedness
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The Trib, delighted with Harsch's backhanded compliment, nevertheless could not resist an improved version for its readers. Said a Trib editorial last week: "From what Mr. Harsch has written, it is clear that, dangerous and costly as the Acheson policies have been, they would have been a great...
From the very beginning there was no question as to the varsity game's outcome. Brown kept the puck in the Crimson none from the first face-off, and opened the scoring at 4:13, although one man short at the time. Veteran center Don Sennott came out from behind...
Brown made it 5 to 1 in the first minute of the second period, when Al Gubbins converted a Sennott passout from the boards behind the Harvard goal. The Crimson got its final point when Dick Clasby took the puck at the Bruin blueline, brought it down to about 15...
The U.S. at long last is getting ready to build a positive policy in the Middle East. The news was announced, in a backhanded way, by Secretary of State Dean Acheson during a press conference last week. He had just rebuked Egypt's Prime Minister for kicking up the...
At the election in 1887, Clemenceau summed up this view of the presidency by growling at his colleagues, "Vote for the stupidest." His fellow deputies paid him a backhanded compliment 33 years later, when they decisively voted him down for the same office.*