Word: crabbedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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-New York's Communist Daily Worker characterized the delegates in its own unique way, thus: Quo-"slick." Byrnes-"a small, crabbed . . . blinky, tight, screwed-up face . . . the sense of his words was sinister nonsense." Ala-"the little adventurer." Lange-"a serious, charming and humane individual." And as for Gromyko...
"In three days I missed five meals, was strafed by jet planes twice, narrowly missed capture once, was kissed by at least 500 Russians and Frenchmen, was absolutely lost in Germany twice, ate four candy bars in one afternoon after not eating candy for 15 years at least, got myself...
The most interesting sides, though, are "I'm Sober Now" and "Jump Steady Blues" for the evocation of the gin mill atmosphere. PT acts out whole scenes while he's playing, taking all the parts, and the result is one of the most amazing jazz records ever made. On these...
A 25-year-old Negro sharecropper laboriously, in crabbed script, wrote his last testament:
At the start of World War II, fat, frisky young King Farouk I of Egypt suffered from nightmares in which he was chased by an angry lion. Haggard from loss of sleep, Farouk sought counsel of crabbed, pro-Axis Sheik Mustafa El-Maraghi, rector of the ancient Moslem University of...