Word: clod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policing the area at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., while waiting for something to happen, but much of this sort of foolishness has been eliminated. Gone are the endless orientation lectures that used to provide an opportunity for a recruit to catch up on sleep while some clod stood before a map and explained where Scandinavia was as he pointed to the Iberian peninsula. By and large, gone too are the arrogant sergeants and junior officers who ordered a trainee to do humiliating things just to show off their authority...
...Neither the rich nor the famous escape his wrath. He recently demanded that a millionaire yachtsman put away his crummy checkbook, pay cash or get out. Last week a stroller who was killing time before a matinee was loudly condemned as "your typical woman shopper." She retorted with "sexist clod"- but only when she was safely out of earshot...
...Every clod has its silver lining, and for each insultee there are thousands who would not light a stove without consulting the proprietor. Jackie Onassis is a devoted customer, as are Johnny Carson, Nelson Rockefeller, Danny Kaye and the Kennedys. The Waldorf Astoria Hotel buys supplies from the store; so does Pan American Airways...
...sensitivity of a clod. That's what we have in the White House now. An oaf and a clod-designate. His wife gets breast cancer and he comes out before the cameramen saying, "Wow, you guys aren't going to believe this..." Waving around family crises--it's both tacky and typical...
...course this clod does not retain enough usable Latin to translate a tombstone, but he cannot admit it. What is excellent about the Nash translations, however, is not only that the English original is on the facing page (an indispensable prop to dignity) but that the poems are very short. This is a great advance over a famous similar confection of a few years back called Winnie IIle Pooh...