Word: galling
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...Kremlin-a privilege never before permitted even the Soviet network. The following year, she collared France's Cultural Affairs Minister André Malraux and demanded: "If Khrushchev trusted me, why can't you?"-and gained TV's first penetration of the Louvre. If guile or gall does not work, there is always main strength. Once when a Tokyo airport functionary tried to prevent her from covering an arrival scene, she simply let the poor fellow have it on the back of the neck with a karate chop...
...some cases, the identification also included forged Government-agent I.D. cards. One crook with more than his share of gall actually checked into one hotel using a card made put in the name of an agent who was chasing...
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Died. Shigeru Yoshida, 89, Premier of Japan in the rebuilding years from 1946 to 1954; of complications following a gall-bladder infection; in Oiso, Japan. "Criticism of Americans is a right accorded even to Americans," Yoshida once wrote. "But in the enumeration of their faults we cannot include their occupation of Japan." Stubby, acerbic and continually puffing cigars, he firmly steered his nation from the rubble of war through the U.S. occupation toward its emergence as a modern industrial democratic state. All along the way, he fended off attacks from both the Communist left and jingoist right...
...physical fitness enthu- siasts who run Monogram Industries Inc. of Los Angeles, big decisions are made on the run. In the late afternoon, Chief Executive Martin Stone, 39, jogs a measured mile with his dog, a golden retriever named Charles de Gall-Stone, while he reflects on the day's corporate affairs. More often than not, Stone and Executive Vice President Harvey...