Word: galling
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Take two parts of insight and three parts of gall. Combine with chunks of meaty research, season with flammable forecasts and serve sizzling on a sharpened verbal skewer. The recipe describes the concoctions of Economist Pierre Rinfret, 46, the engaging, bumptious and increasingly conspicuous purveyor of advice to corporations, investment bankers, Presidents and other politicians...
...Israelis have the edge in pilot skill, plane performance and radar- and radio-control systems. That has bred in them a measure of cockiness and that hard-to-define quality known as chutzpa, or sheer gall. Colonel Uri Yarom, an Israeli helicopter pilot, once gave a classic demonstration of chutzpa when he was dispatched to evacuate an injured sailor from an Israeli freighter in the Mediterranean. Yarom's gas ran low before he could find the freighter; noticing that U.S. helicopters were landing aboard the 40,000-ton Sixth Fleet carrier Wasp, Yarom followed them onto the deck...
...hands of the police, lest they be trampled by these heroic martyrs of Judge Hoffman's courtroom. And after seeing a few of the pictures of the police alongside of these seven paragons of Christian virtue, I can't help wondering where they get the gall to call anyone...
...success, the scene was being prepared for his inevitable comedown-when his AFL champion team would be crunched by the NFL powerhouse Colts. The comedown, of course, never occurred. In the best Cassius Clay tradition, Namath brashly predicted a New York victory in the Super Bowl, then had the gall to actually bring it off. Schaap had his book...
Last fall he became famous as the missing lawyer in the conspiracy trial of the Chicago Eight. Panther Bobby Scale demanded a delay in the trial because Garry was unavailable, recovering from gall bladder surgery. Eventually, a mistrial was declared in Scale's case because of his outbursts. So close is Garry to the Panthers that San Francisco police now call him whenever they issue a warrant for a member of the black militant organization...