Word: causticity
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...climbed back to power on his coattails, openly and often contemptuously opposed him and his administration. Four weeks ago, Magsaysay, at last, came to grips with his arch-opponent in his own party, Senator Claro Recto, 65, a skillful lawyer, neutralist, and determined anti-American, who had done his caustic best to snipe at Magsaysay's policy of friendship...
...Tolerant. "My father cannot be considered a typical Bostonian," admits Mark Howe's son, Radio Commentator Quincy Howe. "He's not caustic enough. He's not a scold. He has a tolerance that is not typical of Boston. Mother was a real Bostonian, from a family of Brahmins. She was always crabbing about something...
...some U.S. churches, Jesus Christ is constantly being made over in the image of Dale Carnegie. Sinclair Lewis took a caustic look at this kind of anthropomorphism in Elmer Gantry, his 1927 satirical novel about the ministry. Lewis enraged the righteous but he made few people apprehensive about the state of the clergy: his pen was too vicious, his view too obviously jaundiced...
...Cinderella, Wendy Mackenzie does not dominate the stage, but her natural freshness and simplicity pervade the whole performance. Her dancing is light and graceful; even when she is downtrodden, she is never bedraggled. Miss Goldsmith's caustic voice is most appropriate for her rendition of the older sister. The younger sister, Miss Shoop, is somewhat less successful with her mouth hanging open all the time, although this seems more a matter of the director's misconception than Miss Shoop's perversity. The Step-mother, Miss Adams, has a little trouble overcoming an inadvertent smirk at the beginning, but she soon...
...scores of other nooks and crannies of Government, less dramatic ways have been found to eliminate competition with private business. The Defense Department has shut down 24 scrap-metal operations, seven bakeries, nine laundries, a chain factory, a caustic-soda plant, four cement-mixing plants, a tire-retreading plant, two garden nurseries and four ice plants. The Navy, which has been manufacturing uniforms for years, has closed its clothing factory. It is bringing in more private yards to overhaul its ships, has boosted such contracts from $34 million in 1953 to $82 million in fiscal...