Word: galled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field of "student political activity." The choice for acting chancellor: Martin Meyerson, 42, an internationally known authority on city planning who since 1963 has been dean of the College of Environmental Design at Berkeley. He takes over from Chancellor Edward W. Strong, 63, who has been suffering from a gall-bladder ailment as well as heavy nervous strain...
...comedy is just as much her forte. Or, in this case, fortissimo--for she bulldozes her way right through the show with an incredible display of dynamic vigor and histrionic virtuosity. She can take a run-of-the-mill phrase or line and make you double over. What a gall Alan Alda makes up the rest of this tandem tantrum...
...seems almost unbelievable that anyone, regardless of his nationality or political convictions, could vilify the Americans, British and Belgians for their humanitarian act in trying to rescue as many as possible of the white hostages in the Congo. Yet the Communists and their fellow travelers have the unmitigated gall to call this action "aggression, a warlike act," etc. Thank God America is still able to do all it can to protect its citizens...
...Gall All Over." Success in that career came early because Howard worked hard to get it. Whatever he got, he owed to no other man. The son of an Irish railroad brakeman and a tollgate keeper's daughter, he never went beyond high school. As a youth in Indianapolis, he rose before dawn to carry the Star, delivered the News every afternoon. In between, he filed so many space-rate stories for the News that the paper put him on a reporter's salary ($8 a week) to save money. Ambition led him to St. Louis...
Scripps's later recollection of the facedown with Howard does not conflict: "His manner was forceful, and the reverse from modest. Gall was written all over his face. It was in every tone and every word he voiced. There was ambition, self-respect and forcefulness oozing out of every pore of his body . . . However, so completely and exuberantly frank was he that it was impossible for me to feel any resentment on account of his cheek." Resentment, indeed. Scripps came to value Howard's talents and insouciance so much that in 1912, at 29, Howard became...