Word: brickbats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This note is tough," said a U.S. diplomat. "They are telling us ... to throw away our gun and brickbat while they keep theirs. Then they will negotiate. I note references to the possibility of World War III. That is something they haven't been talking about in their notes recently...
...mused London's Daily Mail last week, "of removing him from his high and ancient office." For the past five years, outraged churchgoers on both sides of the Atlantic have thought the same thought, as the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, dean of Canterbury Cathedral, cast one irresponsible political brickbat after another into the sanctified air surrounding his pulpit. Last week the best brains of Britain's church and state were doing their best to figure out a way to fire...
...news hit the headlines with a crash like a brickbat sailing through a precinct station window. Britain's refusal to grant Irish unity was an understandably serious problem to the Irish-but should it be allowed to split the two principal allies in the cold war? Ireland's Prime Minister John Costello applauded Fogarty heartily and said a few statesmanlike words about "free peoples of the world" and England's "great wrong." Somebody fired off a bomb in Belfast (a small one which only injured one policeman). But a great many earnest U.S. citizens shredded their morning...