Word: cowardly
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Deficit spending, he warned, is "the way of the political coward" and a sure road to national weakness. In a barbed aside, Ike urged his receptive hearers (2,900 certified public accountants) not to be decoyed by "glittering political promises...
...suggesting a local delicacy, grilled sheep's testicles. Before long, he manages to devise a hurt to meet each of her objections. During one of their recurring fights, he has to resist the impulse to strike her, and then the truth reaches him too. Throwing the word "coward" at him, Marie, pregnant again, sets out to visit an abortionist and finally a lawyer. Strangers is a grim little book but an uncompromisingly honest one. Author Memmi confines himself to a careful, patient piling up of telling detail and harsh, spare dialogue that conveys its own message: love, intelligence...
Inside the hall, the mood was saner, except when a well-aimed egg broke in the lap of the theologian on the platform, bringing from Steve Allen a drawn-out denunciation of "this coward who threw the egg and ran," and from the victim an assurance that the missile was not rotten...
...opponent, another time lunged at a man and bit him in the throat). Yet, even at the peak of Huey's power, Earl was still in the shadow, forbidden by the Kingfish to climb the higher reaches. Their falling out was bitter; to Earl, Huey was "the yellowest coward that God ever let live...
Died. Leonora Corbett, 52, British actress, a favorite of George Bernard Shaw, A. A. Milne and Noel Coward, and a frequent leading lady in their plays, who was best known in the U.S. as the ghostly first wife in Blithe Spirit in 1941, was married only once (for four years to onetime NBC Vice President John F. Royal) though her "list of fiances," she often said, "included a majority of the peers listed in Debrett's"; of a heart attack; in Vleuten, The Netherlands...