Word: erful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provisional council, and it was here that the racial issue came up or, more exactly, failed to come up. "I said, 'How about the white-black problem? I've noticed here you have four whites out of seven on the council.' They said, 'Four what?' I said, 'Well...er...excuse me, but there's a problem here...let's lay our cards on the table. Let's be sure we can live with this group and so forth,' and they said, 'No problem, no problem.' I found it hard to believe but I pressed them and they assured me. Then...
...thing, sir. May I mention that Plum Pie, thanks to the information I provided, also contains rather cutting portrayals of a number of your-er, associates, notably Bingo Little, Cyril Grooly, Freddie Threepwood and Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge. One feels that you emerge as the ablest...
...they write, Columnist Jimmy Breslin appeared with open collar and untied tie, Writer Tom Wolfe in a white suit over a blue paisley shirt, Pop Critic Dick Goldstein with a Beatles haircut, boots and an "Indo-Russian embroidered jacket." They were joined by two new staffers, Lady-Writ-er-About-Town Gloria Steinem and Mafia Watcher Peter Maas. Harold Clurman will review plays for the revived magazine, Judith Crist, movies. George Hirsch, who came from TIME-LIFE International, is publisher...
...think," he says, "it's going to affect me much, er, personally. It's me and my colleagues that've got to be left with the job of governing the country. Decisions have got to be made, perhaps unpopular, but we shall make them. The more unpopular they are, the more we shall make. At last we know where we are going and can see the end of the road." With that, the scene shifts to a car trundling down a beach and plopping ignominiously into the water...
...fault, in all fairness, is not his. His settings are as novelistically vivid as ever. The action is brisk: scenes from the War of 1812 as a curtain rais er; no-quarter combat with pirates in Caribbean and African waters; amphibious derring-do during the Mexican War; for a climax, the Commodore's steaming into Edo Bay and dramatically opening Japan to the West...