Word: galling
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...Coast Peace Corps teachers are the highest paid, best lodged, best fed in the world. It is surprising that no one has as yet come up with the rest of it--that they are the laziest. I doubt that many other PCV's in the world would have the gall to claim that 22 hours of English a week fulfills their PC contract. Ours...
...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT (Angel). British Satirists Michael Flanders and Donald Swann have recently returned to Broadway with a new collection of dotty ditties about the gas man (who "cometh") and De Gaulle ("all gall"). This LP was recorded in London but is essentially the same as the U.S. show, and besides-it's the only recording that will be released...
...Gaulle clearly recognizes, a bigger Europe could not so easily be dominated by one nation, as France now dominates the policy of the Common Market. He let it be known last week that he was furious that Wilson had the gall to speak on French soil to the Council of Europe before paying his respects at the Elysee Palace. Wilson's aides let it be known that they considered such sensibilities "petty...
...operation watcher," she explained to the New York Times. It started when Shirley was 14, visiting an army hospital in Oregon. "A boy asked me to be with him while his leg was amputated. I held his hand the entire time, and since then have watched many operations. Gall bladders are the best-the colors are gorgeous...
...National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., outside Washington, Johnson's quarters were equally shipshape. On the walls of his three-bedroom suite, the same one he had occupied after his gall-bladder surgery 57 weeks earlier, hung paintings of his birthplace, boyhood home and ranch, along with framed quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Harold Macmillan and the Roman consul Paulus, all upholding the axiom-one that is not writ large in Lyndon Johnson's copybook-that a leader who wastes too much time on his critics has little time left for leadership. Across Wisconsin Avenue, the lights were...