Word: gallingly
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...Crimson defense may also have some help today from a relative anemic Big Green attack Dartmouth has only scored once in two Ivy games its leading offensive threat Frank Gall, has been hurt and it does not have a man among the top 15 scorers in the league...
...deeply ashamed of the handling of the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach [Sept. 4]. Nixon managed to disinfect the hall and eliminate anyone whose thinking might differ from his, while still campaigning on the same old promises we gullibly swallowed in '68. He had the gall to suggest that the majority of the youth in this country, many of whom he has lumped under the category of "bums," would abandon their principles and support him rather than Senator McGovern. Perhaps the worst part was the sugarcoated, stagy testimonials of all the Great Things Our President Has Accomplished...
...stifle"-both expressions that were to become Archie's. The family shifted restlessly from New Haven, Conn., where Norman was born, to nearby Hartford, then to Boston and New York City, as the elder Lear pursued a variety of get-rich-quick schemes with a lot of gall but little success. Norman decided to become a pressagent like his uncle Jack, "the only relative on either side of my family who could throw a nephew a quarter when he visited...
...impact laugh and the question, "If you can't trust your car dealer, who can you trust?" This bang-up if nonsensical commercial has drawn attention as well as plenty of customers and has made Balch a local celebrity. Psychologists may ponder the reason: perhaps people admire his gall, or perhaps they harbor fantasies themselves of working off frustrations by bashing...
...work he's doing-the nurturing of playwrights-is enormous," says Donald Schoenbaum, managing director of the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. "His combination of brilliance and gall is untouchable." Both No Place to Be Somebody, Charles Gordone's Pulitzer-prizewinning play about blacks, and Championship Season were turned down by half a dozen other producers before they reached Papp. The original version of Hair was also his. Is the theater dying? Papp snorts at such a stupid question. "You accept the fact that you're alive. I accept the fact that theater exists...