Word: chews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process she admiringly ascribes to Dr. Christian: "to ruminate some particularly knotty concept into smooth mental paste." Hence the cascade of cliches, many per page and even paragraph. An adviser tells the President: "It's a hot potato, none hotter. We may be biting off more than we can chew." The "cool lustrous brain" of Judith Carriol manifests itself dimly: "The less people involved, the better," or, "If there is any reason in the world why you are where you are and who you are on this day, the reason...
...rule it out." "You're saying maybe you're taking something that has the side effect of impairing memory." "Either I'm taking something and I don't remember or I'm not taking something and I don't remember. My life is either or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium steps." "Sounds like a boring life." "I hope it lasts forever," she said...
John Foster Dulles was there. Foster used to chew his cud, and he had a tic over his eye. I can see him now as he sat back and said, "But anyone who claws his way to the top in that Soviet jungle will prove formidable." As it turned out, Khrushchev was by far the most intelligent, imaginative and creative Soviet leader I've ever...
...puzzles them how a complex and little-regulated society can maintain such a high level of production, efficiency and technological innovation. Many are inclined toward the fantastic notion that there must be a secret control center somewhere in the U.S. They continue to chew on Lenin's dogma that bourgeois governments are just the "servants" of monopoly capital. Is that not the secret control center? The great gap in Soviet understanding of U.S. policies and practices sometimes means that even experienced message carriers and advisers of the Politburo like Anatoly Dobrynin, the longtime Ambassador in Washington, do not necessarily convey...
Junior Larry Scott, the Crimson's top player, took the first set against All-American Chew Kennedy but came up short, falling in the next two sets, 6-1, 6-3. "I played him last year and got beaten pretty badly," said Scott. "I played a much better game this year...