Word: gauntlet
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...with a decided verbal aptitude. He knows all about the Madison Avenue image and the subliminal lure of clever words, but he doesn't know a damn thing about the yearnings of millions of Americans. Once again the enemy has gone too far-they have thrown down the gauntlet. The world waits -the American people are ready-and the President philosophizes about responsibility. Come on Hamlet-get Cuba...
...salesman, who directs day-to-day operations. Neither boss does much roaring around Mahogany Row, which has seen other changes as well. When Ford and General Motors announced last week that they were doubling their warranties (to 24 months or 24,000 miles), Romney would have snapped up the gauntlet in ten seconds. Said Cross: "Let's sleep on it." In fact, it took AMC executives four nights to decide to follow suit...
...help celebrate the Crystal Palace Exhibition (the first world's fair), members of England's Royal Yacht Squadron hit on a grand scheme: invite a U.S. boat to race-and give the brash Yankee upstarts a lesson in sailing tactics. The gauntlet was swiftly picked up by Commodore John C. Stevens, a founder of the New York Yacht Club, an ardent gambler and a shrewd sailor. The terms were tough: the course was laid out around the Isle of Wight, and Stevens' 102-ft. pilot schooner America was to race alone against the entire Royal Yacht Squadron...
...diversity in our choices, seek to be timely, and insist on readability. We think that the four new titles can be judged by these standards, for they are: Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson (the best contemporary novel on Africa); S.L.A. Marshall's The River and the Gauntlet (Korean war); Lincoln Barnett's The Universe and Dr. Einstein; and Sybille Bedford's The Trial of Doctor Adams...
...opinion of General Douglas MacArthur, whom he charges with making a fatal mistake in splitting his forces for the dash to the Yalu River. Result was the disastrous rout of U.S. forces by the Chinese Communists, so poignantly described by S.L.A. Marshall in The River and the Gauntlet. But Leckie believes that the war was worth its high cost of 33,629 American lives. "In Korea." he writes, "invasion was repelled, and in such manner as to remind the world that an invader need not be destroyed to be repulsed.To gnash one's teeth because the invader escaped destruction...