Word: causticity
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...Chairman. The following day, in an equally caustic mood, Sir Gladwyn took over the Council presidency for September. He promptly broke through the roadblock set up by Malik. Before the session was 60 seconds old, Britain's Jebb invited South Korea's patient John M. Chang to sit with the Council during its discussion of North Korean aggression. Malik waved for attention, snapped his fingers, called "point of order" twice in English. But Jebb kept eyes on Chang until the Korean was seated at the table. Then Malik got the floor...
...foulest piece of journalism perpetrated in [Britain] for many a long year-and that is certainly saying something . . ." The caustic editorialist was Michael Foot, 37, wiry, wily Laborite M.P., co-editor of the Socialist weekly Tribune (circ. 20,000) and onetime acting editor of Lord Beaverbrook's Tory London Evening Standard. What had roused Foot's wrath was the way the Standard (circ. 871,000) had handled John Strachey's appointment as Secretary of State for War (TIME, March...
Soon after these articles appeared in Le Monde, both sides reacted. The U.S. Embassy protested, and Emmanuel was shifted from his job with the American service of the French Broadcasting system. From the Communists came a long caustic, open letter of reproach and attack, by Claude Roy in Les Lettres Francaises...
Andy Sheridan was a tough guy from Manhattan's brawling East Side, as tough as his father had been before him. When Andy was eight, a neighborhood kid threw caustic in his face, damaging his eyes and giving his face a permanent squint. When he was twelve, his old man hauled him into New York's Children's Court and charged him with stealing his watch. The court sent "Squint" Sheridan to the Catholic Protectory for a year...
...smiling and I was smiling. That's the way I wanted it to be. No weeping stuff." Squint had one more request: he wanted his eyes given to New York's Eye-Bank (doctors said the corneas could still be used despite the damage caused by the caustic 41 years...