Word: galling
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...Nixon and his spokesmen, by proclaiming a new era of peace, appear to make ludicrous claims for the present. But we should extend them the courtesy of acknowledging how reasonable these claims seem when compared to their nonsensical view of the past. If it appears, as Nixon had the gall to assert in January, that our involvement in the war was "one of the most selfless enterprises in the history of nations," it is because Hanoi and the PRG have kept the U.S. from stablizing an illegitimate rightist regime in the South. America has gained nothing, while...
...twenty. Total artistic control of Spencer Davis's group at sixteen, Dear Mr. Fantasy at seventeen, playing with Clapton at nineteen, it goes on. Winwood may be the most talented person making music today, his virtuosity on keyboards, bass and guitar makes me think Stills has a lotta gall trying to play those three instruments. Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory is a shade better than Low Spark. It's one of the few albums I can listen to, in its entirety, at one sitting. And what never fails to impress me is how Winwood gets away with those...
...more likely to develop gallstones than those who eat normally. The researchers draw their conclusion from autopsy records of patients involved in a VArun trial of dietary prevention of heart disease. Their study showed that 33% of the men who followed the VA diet had stones in their gall bladders; only 14% of those in the control group developed stones. The doctors are unsure as to how the experimental diet increased the incidence of gallstones, nor are they recommending that such diets be abandoned. Few people die of gallstones; heart disease kills more than 700,000 Americans a year...
...takes a certain amount of gall for Englishmen to tell Americans about America. But the English, thank God, have it. In this 13-part series, a coproduction by the BBC and TIME-LIFE Films, they are using it to show a country that, even to Americans, sometimes seems as foreign and fascinating as Marco Polo's Cathay...
...activity. No fan of Nixon's, Osborne nonetheless admired the effectiveness of the Republican campaign strategy: "It is McGovern, not Nixon, who has been driven to the harsh and shrill extremes that have been Nixon trademarks." Watching Nixon deflect questions on Watergate, Osborne grudgingly commended "a display of mixed gall and skill that I've never seen equaled." He also noted and deplored the effect on reporters of the "mesmerizing power of the presidency...