Word: galled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from every living alumnus is needed. Yale's class of 1954 currently holds the record for any single class at any college with $1,636,000 donated. (1636 is the year of Harvard's founding and some officials suggested that Yale might have fudged the total a little to gall its ancient rival.) The Harvard Class of '54 had more than $1.3 million in the till in May, and fund-raising officials are confident that both the goal and Yale's record are within reach...
Riding on a lot of contacts, a line of credit and sheer gall, a troupe of about 300 international profiteers have become the principal beneficiaries of the galloping oil price increases that occur daily on the "spot market." They are the mysterious players in a loose old-boy network of private investors, former oil executives, foreign government officials, Arab sheiks and assorted middlemen, brokers and hustlers. "Many of them," says Joe Roeber, a London-based analyst of the spot market, "got out of trading used tires or razor blades or whatever else they were doing to start dealing...
David Levine is the best-known political and literary caricaturist since Max Beerbohm. His cartoon of Lyndon Johnson's gall bladder scar in the shape of Viet Nam is a classic, and it is impossible to see a picture of Kafka, Mailer or Proust without remembering the artist's caustic lines. But there is another, gentler Levine: a water-colorist of enormous delicacy and control. The Arts of David Levine (Knopf; 205 pages; $25) celebrates both with generous samples of serious portraiture, beach scenes and parodic sketches that recall the nervous poignance of Daumier and fully justify John...
...Angeles World Affairs Council thought it would be a good idea to invite Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith as a guest speaker, but to Actress-Demonstrator Jane Fonda the notion amounted to unmitigated gall. She and 500 other protesters with pickets and bullhorns denounced Smith as a symbol of white-ruled Africa's racial policies. "We have enough problems here," Fonda declared, "without propping up a minority military regime. It is important to let him know that his philosophy is not welcome to millions of Americans." To Smith the hostility was nothing new: he has been greeted similarly...
...gall and the belly went insane...