Word: crowings
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...Score. Exuberant as Adoula was over Tshombe's plight, there was not much for him to crow about. Even if Katanga is successfully reintegrated, he will still face the equally formidable problems of administrative incompetence, official corruption, army indiscipline and-worst of all-rivalries among the Congo's 200 tribes. The point was underlined in blood last week in Kasai province, where feuding tribesmen were at one another's throats over a border dispute. Natives kidnaped and reportedly ate two Belgian lumbermen, then began slaughtering one another in the town of Kakenge. Such gruesome incidents no longer...
Unswerving Conviction. The French, who got no help from the U.S. in developing their force de frappe, were quick to crow that Britain's ties with the U.S. had brought it nothing but humiliation. By contrast, bragged French officials, the Skybolt fiasco only vindicated France's decision to develop its own bombs and delivery systems. Thus, though Charles de Gaulle promised to "reflect" on the Polaris offer, there was little likelihood that he would accept any offer that would subject a French force to Allied control...
...sanctions any incorrect usage as long as it is common. It calls like, for example, a synonym for as, citing as authority Art Linkletter on a TV program. Writes Macdonald: "It is felt that it is snobbish to insist on making discriminations-the very word has acquired a Jim Crow flavor...
...study, and that was too long. But he is perceptive in ferreting out the "perplexing parables" of Kafka's style. Driven by visions of horror and forebodings of doom, Kafka's great obsession was man's alienation from himself, from other me, from the absolute. "The crows maintain." he wrote, "that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of this, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heavens simply means: the impossibility of crows." Heavens that possess crows must stop being heavens; laws that touch men abandon justice...
...steel-rimmed-glasses granny (Irene Ryan) is cordon bluegrass when it comes to cooking hawg jowls, fat back, corn pone, mustard greens, salted-down possum belly, squirrel shanks, crow gizzards, and boiled toad. Her granddaughter Elly May resembles Al Capp's Daisy Mae from head to toes, notably in profile. She is a tomboy, but she somehow wears Levi's as if they were a bikini. Actress Donna Douglas is typecast in the part. A few years ago she was the best hot-pepper eater in Baywood, La., where she also played boys' football, pitched in softball...