Word: chutzpah
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Since then, any pol worth his consulting fee has tried to lowball his own candidate's prospects while inflating his opponent's. The high chutzpah mark was reached in 1972 when George McGovern's 37% showing in New Hampshire was taken as a victory because a key aide to Ed Muskie had stupidly said she'd cut her throat if Muskie didn't get half the vote--a bar he missed by three points...
...Rube Goldberg than Orville Wright, refused to approve his planned transatlantic flight. Corrigan agreed to return to California--but once in the air, headed east. Touching down in Ireland 28 hours later, Corrigan, straight-faced but twinkle-eyed, attributed his detour to a faulty compass. This combination of chutzpah and heroism propelled him to international celebrity, leading to a Hollywood biopic (he played himself) and a lifetime of personal appearances...
...threat of an antitrust suit stopped the league from blocking the Rams' move to St. Louis last year, and even now--talk about chutzpah--Al Davis is suing the N.F.L. for trying to prevent his move back to Oakland. So while the N.F.L. is willing to send its lawyers up against those of Jerry Jones, it won't line up over the old antitrust ball with Modell. "Given the current court precedents and the possibility of treble damages in a case decided by a jury in an interested locale," says Tagliabue, "we would be foolish to go to court over...
Perennial faces in the news include out-spoken Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, the author of Chutzpah, who recently made headlines for his comment on "Good Morning America" in which he said that police officers are trained to lie on the witness stand. (That remark sparked a recent protest by more than 60 area police officers outside The Dersh's office in early June.) Ron Silver played Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune, a film based on Dersh's defense of Rhode Island aristocrat Claus von Bulow...
...classic definition of chutzpah is someonewho kills their parents and pleads for mercy onthe grounds that she is an orphan," the professoradded. "She may have been rejected on the groundsof chutzpah...