Word: brat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of the officers in pressing her charges. In referring to Millington, Mrs. Hasseltine goes on to say, "He is the only gentleman I have met in all my years with this regiment." But he has not acted remotely like a gentleman, only like a sour, spoiled, self-indulgent brat. Besides, Mrs. Hasseltine is in the weakest position to raise any moral questions since it is she who has maligned an innocent man's character. Even as plot jockeying, this kind of dishonest playwriting does not pay, for the audience feels in the end that the emotion, interest...
...France: he wanted to print the paper in several cities to speed distribution; he wanted to switch from the company's muddy old flatbed presses to cleaner offset printing; he wanted to use more color illustration. The family blocked the way. "They kept treating me like a snotty little brat who was running around with wild ideas that were going to ruin the business," he says. But after his father's retirement, John took over the company presidency in 1967, and a year later negotiated a merger with Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp. that neatly removed him from the Fairchild family...
...Coco to catch her good friend Lauren Bacall, 45, in Applause-and visibly annoyed when Manhattan's press photographers spoiled her getaway act. When one especially persistent reporter tracked her quarry all the way home, she got more than a picture. "Get away from me, you little brat," hissed Katie, "or I'll punch you in the face...
...massive body of evidence to disprove them. Yet if Chambers' judgment is fashionable, his spiritual trajectory was not traditional. For one thing he became a Quaker, not a Catholic. If he found God, he did not wholly retreat into the pursuit of private salvation. "I am the horrid brat of historicity," he explains to Buckley. The dominant experience of his life, and of the age, had involved concepts of history and political change-and Chambers could not quite forgo them. But for the great labor of trying to save "the unsavable society" politically, Chambers invoked the classic symbol...