Word: galling
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...Here's a man who's spent 70 years of his life in New York City coming here and telling the legislature what's good for Cambridge." That was "colossal gall," McCann declared...
...curious to find out who had written this incoherent and almost insane diatribe and after some investigation I discovered that it was none other than Whittaker Chambers, who was then book editor of Time. Imagine the gall of that ex-Communist...
Marks heaven with gall...
...Makes Sammy Run? is the musical saga of Sammy Glick, who progresses, like a good heel should, from cutting corners to cutting throats. But since the book came out in 1941, something unsettling has happened to the heel; now the question is whether he should be scorned for his gall or admired for his How-to-Succeed spunk, shunned as a social leper or respected as a social dynamo. When the Sammy Clicks and Harry Bogens (I Can Get It for You Wholesale) first appeared in novels, the socio-economic climate was troubled, and heels were regarded as products...
...gall. Some punk just walked up and stole this 1963 Ford station wagon, not even considering who the owner was. So Mickey Spillane, 45, had to report the theft to the Sarasota, Fla., cops. Moped he defensively: "I know what you're going to say: 'Go find it yourself.' " Gone with the car were his wife's engagement and wedding rings, his wallet, and the only manuscript of his new book, The Body Lovers. The manuscript he didn't mind. "That just means I've got to sit down and do three more days...