Word: conceitedness
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hub cap (hot-rod jargon)-conceited type
War of Words. And while the shot-putters are setting records with the 16-lb. ball, they are proving themselves equally adept at flinging insults. The main target: veteran O'Brien, a haughty sort who makes no secret of the fact that he thinks himself king of the whales...
As a boy, Nobusuke was frail, and so swarthy that his schoolmates called him "Darky." He was also proud and conceited and "was always picking fights with bigger and older boys," a habit he has not yet outgrown. In middle school, Nobusuke wrote an essay praising the suicide of General...
The crimes for which Turkish newsmen are jailed would be considered fair editorial treatment in any other democracy. Editor Balcioglu was jugged for reprinting part of a story by U.S. Newspaper Publisher Eugene C. Pulliam (the Indianapolis Star, nine other papers), who, after a 1958 visit to Turkey, called the...
The "imperialist cowboy propaganda" in TIME to which Nkrumah objected were articles in the Dec. 14 and Dec. 21 issues, particularly one story reporting the flouting of Nkrumah's wishes by Kenya's rising young (29) Tom Mboya, who formed a powerful new rival Pan-African labor group...