Word: gibe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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YOUR father's a dirty scab!" is the shrill cry often heard these days on the quiet streets of Sheboygan, Wis. The gibe of one child against another is being echoed at the adult level as a U.S. Senate committee probes one of the longest, costliest strikes in U.S. history, the United Auto Workers four-year-old strike against the Kohler Co. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The "Almost Sinful" Strike...
Died. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, 79, fiery Irish poet (Mirage Waters), playwright (The Glittering Gates) and novelist, a goateed gibe-jabber who characterized much modern verse as talk that "nonsense is truth, truth nonsense"; in Dublin. A towering (6 ft. 4 in.) athlete, Lord Dunsany fought in, the Boer War and World War I ("Our trenches were only six feet deep; I shall never fear publicity again...
...then, the U.S. on the brink of war? asked a reporter. Dulles made no effort to pull back from this gibe at what his critics like to call his policy of brinkmanship. "If anybody studies history they will find that the world has been always on the brink of war. The great reason why we have had so many wars is that people take it for granted that there isn't going to be any war. They get complacent and do not make the necessary efforts to avoid war. It's only by being conscious of the fact...
...ruling that it is not illegal to advocate overthrow of the U.S. Government as "an abstract principle divorced from any effort to instigate action to that end." Some of the loudest outcries came from newspapers that had championed McCarthy; they ranged from the Omaha World-Herald's gibe that it is now "all right to teach that the White House should be blown up," to the Cleveland Plain Dealer's invitation: "Well, comrades, you've got what you wanted. The Supreme Court has handed it to you on a platter. Come...
...trade is already pledged to Russia and the satellites. Though British exports to China are expected to double, they will still amount to less than 1% of total British exports. But in British terms adherence to the U.S. position had subjected the government to an unbearable political gibe that Britain was simply being a "lackey" to Washington. Said one government official: "We cannot persuade our people that China is a greater danger in the world than Russia- especially after the events in Hungary. We just cannot explain to British businessmen any longer why they can sell jeeps or tractors...