Word: dwarfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powerful masters. Hence thinking along the lines of Black Consciousness makes the black man see himself as a being, entire in himself, and not as an extension of a broom or additional leverage to some machine. At the end of it all, he cannot tolerate attempts by anybody to dwarf the significance of his manhood. Once this happens, we know that the real man in the black person is beginning to shine through...
...read a letter from the little man with the funny hair and began the atomic bomb. And one afternoon shortly before the Bay of Pigs in 1961, John Kennedy brushed aside the warnings that a moon shot was a multibillion-dollar, decade-long gamble that might fail. Such decisions dwarf the squabbles of politicians...
...telexing messages to Moscow, Tunney got the license, and presto, he and his friend have exclusive rights in the Western Hemisphere to promote the Olympics. On the drawing board: Olympic T shirts, buckles, decals and posters, as well as special lotteries, sweepstakes and shopping-center tours by a dwarf dressed to look like Misha. Will Tunney, 43, use the big bucks from the project to finance a political comeback? Flashing what has been called the second best set of teeth in politics, he declares: "I'm keeping that option open...
...verdict was thumbs down. Henry Kissinger did not like the portrait painted by Boston Artist Gardner Cox. One viewer thought it made him look "somewhat a dwarf," and another pronounced it "a rogues' gallery thing." Not surprisingly, the Government, which had commissioned the art to hang in the State Department with Cox's portraits of former Secretaries Dean Acheson and Dean Rusk, rejected it. "We felt that the portrait lacked Mr. Kissinger's expression-the dynamism which exudes from him," said State Department Curator Clement Conger. Cox will be paid $700 in expenses...
...military funeral for the slain 15, he lashed away furiously at both the Palestinian liberation movement and Cyprus. Yasser Arafat's followers, he said, were "little people and idiots." Sadat announced a break in diplomatic relations with Cyprus' Greek government and dismissed President Spyros Kyprianou as "a dwarf (the Egyptian is 5 ft. 9 in., while the Cypriot is 5 ft. 4 in.). "Cyprus should explain to me," said a Sadat close to tears, "the treachery that was committed against my sons...