Word: causticity
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...year's end, except in China, where it continues through March 1947. Perhaps the gravest of all issues facing UNRRA was the question of its extension beyond the appointed deadline. The Atlantic City conference would not decide the point, but UNRRA officials were acutely conscious of it. Caustic critics clamored for its demise; but whatever UNRRA's faults, it was clear that some agency was needed to carry out its functions. By the time the green turns into yellow, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Rumania should be able to produce most of their own food. But Greece, Italy, Austria...
...neighboring El Salvador a caustic press predicted that the needles of the Honduran pine would outsting the thorns of the Honduran rose...
...evening at a Hollywood party, Songwriter Frank Loesser (Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition) saw Burrows at the piano, ad-libbing caustic caricatures of prominent guests and singing parodies of popular songs. After that evening, due to Loesser's ballyhooing, Abe had little time for work. He was invited to more parties than he could attend. As soon as he arrived, he would be plied with drinks ("I think drinking is only good if done to excess," he says) and virtually chained to the piano for the four hours or so it takes to go through his repertory...
...that was caustic, suspicious and envious in the French character welled up. People hated the ubiquitous black marketeers, sneered at their nouveau riche manners. They railed against the Government. The gay, graceful days of Gallic joie de vivre seemed a thing of the past. A kind of national dissatisfaction gripped the French: thousands were talking of leaving for some happier land, and many actually applied for visas. In their physical misery and moral confusion Frenchmen no longer spoke of "la belle France"; now it was "pauvre France...
...Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Cronyn Tovey, 60, lean, caustic Commander in Chief of the wartime British Home Fleet, known above decks as "Jack," below decks as "Splash Guts...