Word: detractor
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While an aroused codger made news by bopping a detractor of the Queen (see FOREIGN NEWS) because, he said, Prince Philip was in no position to thrash the bounder himself, the prince collected a few headlines on his own. At Arundel Castle in Sussex, he captained a cricket team during a charity match, let a hot liner bounce off his chest for what the Americans would call an error, saw his players fight to a draw with the Duke of Norfolk's team. At Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, he raised eyebrows by having a drink with...
...Babe's detractor has a memory too. "Weren't the rules on Ruth's side then? There were no ground-rule doubles. Some of his homers actually bounced into the stands. Counting them that way, Mantle might have broken the record already." The sentimentalist has a ready answer: "The fences are shorter now, which makes things more than even. And what about the rabbit ball...
...floodlighted congressional committee room last summer, he made his enormous, softly worded accusation-that Alger Hiss, a former high State Department official, had also been a Communist. The nation was shocked. Hiss shocked it again. He vehemently denied every accusation and filed a $75,000 libel action against his detractor. Chambers, who thought that his own word as an ex-Communist was enough, produced no more evidence to back his charge...
...Surrealists and fellow travelers of 19 nations, including the top ones: Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray. Many admirers of early Surrealism (such as Communist Louis Aragon) felt that the daft old horse had lost its kick. Notably absent: Giorgio de Chirico, now a noisy detractor of the movement, and Salvador Dali, unfrocked by orthodox Surrealists for being too frivolous and too commercial...
...recent months Generalissimo Chiang has won brilliant military victories which many an American detractor of Chiang thought he never would. In the meantime, the Communists have become more stubborn. The delicate and drawn-out negotiations which General Marshall, together with U.S. Ambassador John Leighton Stuart, had been carrying out, have come to a virtual standstill. If any new presidential statement were issued, it should have reconsidered China policy in the light of current events. As matters now stand, a new and realistic statement will be difficult to draft for some time to come...