Word: galling
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...father's force and intelligence. Still, even as the country's living standard sank progressively under his rule, there was little indication that Jean-Claude might be overthrown. In 1980 he married Michele, a divorcee with two children. Her million-dollar splurges on clothes and diamonds soon came to gall a country that could not even feed its people...
...wives, children, students, and occasional sports fans. Cosell, according to Cosell, was of course the key ingredient to that recipe, and Frank Gifford, O.J. Simpson, and Don Meredith were just a bunch of dumb jocks thrown in the booth as personal favors from Roone Arledge. Cosell even has the gall to say that the only reason Gifford still has a job is because of his close personal friendship with the ABC News president. How ironic, coming from the man about whom fans and sports critics alike have said the very same thing...
...Grabs is a story of rapacity and gall told with bemused admiration for the waves of visionaries and scamps who have left their mark on the Sunshine State. "All our lies would turn out to be true," says a veteran developer who bet that dreams of warmth and leisure would prevail over miasmal realities. Florida's first land barons dredged canals and transformed muck into pay dirt. Huge damp swaths of the stuff were then subdivided and merchandised as paradise. Georgia Poet Sidney Lanier was hired to lure frostbitten Northerners with seductive publicity, and William Jennings Bryan was paid...
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 is absurd" What force?" What gall! What fun! "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...
Donald E. Gall Manaus, Brazil