Word: chutzpa
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...Crimson featured Hillel turncoats David Abraham Weinfeld and Alex Ginsberg, who demonstrated extraordinary chutzpa by defecting from their usual team. Weinfeld went 3-for-4 from the plate and Ginsberg impressed in the outfield...
...When Kennedy made that promise, I mean...what chutzpa to do that! Promise to do what other people say is impossible; I guess that's what leadership is. What's the adage? 'Give me a place to stand, and I can move the world'? Well, I'm not comparing myself to the world's leaders. And I can't stand yet. But give me a place...
...worry. The book is still lull of gems. For those who need definitions of Yiddishisms that have crept into everyday use, Rosten provides examples, many with a fond patina of age: chutzpa is a case of "a man who, having killed his mother and father, asks the court for mercy because he is an orphan, poor schlemiel is a man who "falls on his back and breaks his nose." Some lines are cosmic as well as comic: "The rich have heirs, not children." "Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help...
...Israelis have the edge in pilot skill, plane performance and radar- and radio-control systems. That has bred in them a measure of cockiness and that hard-to-define quality known as chutzpa, or sheer gall. Colonel Uri Yarom, an Israeli helicopter pilot, once gave a classic demonstration of chutzpa when he was dispatched to evacuate an injured sailor from an Israeli freighter in the Mediterranean. Yarom's gas ran low before he could find the freighter; noticing that U.S. helicopters were landing aboard the 40,000-ton Sixth Fleet carrier Wasp, Yarom followed them onto the deck...
WHETHER in tribulation or triumph, the Jews over the centuries have learned to extract a laugh from almost any event. Last week, acting as the unofficial humor makers of America, they produced a rapid-fire chain of chutzpa-laced jokes about the Middle East conflict that flew as swiftly as a Jewish Superman (see cut). Their comic chronology...