Word: galle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ostensible argument of the book is that Jews should employ more chutzpah when it comes to standing up against anti-Semitism. ("Chutzpah" is an untranslatable Yiddish term describing qualities of assertiveness, demandingness and gall.) Dershowitz argues that Jews have too long allowed themselves to be trodden upon--to be treated as second-class citizens--because they are too concerned about making a favorable impression on their Gentile "hosts...
CARSWELL'S further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key. "Wake Up The Grader" phrases--"It What force! What gall! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile...
Last Wednesday, this regionally oppressed resident of northern Virginia lashed out at all those insensitive people. People like President Derek C. Bok, Kirkland Master Donald Pfister and me. Our crime? We had the gall to criticize Kerrigan's actions. We had the nerve to point out the flaws in her disingenuous arguments. We made her feel marginalized...
...does a reporter covering a debate have the gall to report one party's claim as "the facts" and completely drop out the opposing party's claims? Werner's article is consciously or unconsciously designed to strengthen the Big Lie that justifies Cambridge's 20-year oppression and exploitation of landlords...
...building -- a striped marble lump by Edward Larrabee Barnes, which looks like a consulate in some Middle Eastern emirate -- cost $60 million; the endowment fund is $38 million, a large but, for its purposes, insufficient amount. It is a tribute to his gall that Hammer managed to get Oxy to pay out such sums, when he owned less than 1% of Oxy stock, on the questionable ground that the museum would pump up the company's prestige. Oxy shareholders are suing for waste of corporate assets. The niece of Hammer's wife Frances, who died in 1989, is also suing...