Word: chutzpah
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...Meese. Ed Meese was not indicted. But Mr. ((Gerard)) Indelicato in Massachusetts was indicted. So please tell me what the difference is, Governor. One was a high-ranking state education official, indicted, convicted, and on his way to prison. And here is a man standing there with all the chutzpah in the world, pointing the finger at somebody else. And I might say, to get one last political shot in here, the analogy of a fish rotting from the head down was very offensive to a lot of people in this country. And you're looking at one of them...
Weeks theorizes that U.S. prosperity and leisure time in the postwar period have resulted in a rebirth of homegrown oddballitry. He found that American eccentrics are just as humorous as their British peers, but generally kinder and less sarcastic. The Americans seemed to rely more on intuition and chutzpah than logic or rationality. Thanks to the American legacy of political rebelliousness, Weeks says, U.S.-bred eccentrics tend to hold more radical views than their better-born British brethren. "Eccentricity flourishes where there is freedom of expression," he says. "You won't find eccentrics tolerated in repressive regimes or countries where...
...once America figures out how Northeastern Gore is, his ability to deliver the crucial South will be severely diminished. Jackson could deliver the South, but unfortunately, he would send much of the country Federal Express to the GOP. America doesn't yet have the chutzpah to vote for a Black preacher with no political experience...
...lugers are all seasoned veterans compared with the Jamaican bobsled team, which first put a sled into a starting chute only four months ago. In Calgary the Jamaicans may well win the gold medal for marketing chutzpah. Their T shirts sell for $15, their sweat shirts for $28. There is even a recorded reggae theme song for sale, Hobbin & A Bobbin. But team members bristle when anyone questions their commitment. Says Driver Dudley Stokes, a captain in the Jamaica Defense Forces: "There are no jokers on this team." There is a sprint champion and a reggae singer, though. Stokes flies...
...study of the damage done to macadamia nuts by rats; $1.4 million for a catfish farm in Stuttgart, Ark.; and -- in a special dig at the legislators -- $500,000 to bring leaders of emerging democracies to the U.S. to study the workings of Congress. Not even Reagan has the chutzpah to mention one particularly large chunk of pork: $25 million for an unnecessary new airport near Fort Worth, the hometown of House Speaker Jim Wright. After all, Wright will be sitting just behind the President...