Word: gibe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miss Sarraute writes, with the "face of a rapt fanatic . . . and an inadequately furnished head into which come to settle perhaps, taking up all the room, who knows what absurd beliefs . . . Christian science . . . occultism . . . yogi . . . Greek sandals . . . table-tipping." Two critics pass the ill-matched pair. "Ha, ha," they gibe, "still discussing The Golden Fruits?" Translated into Sarrautese, this sally means: "Poor creatures, incapable of grasping, dissecting anything delicate . . . trusting only in their instinct, which immediately makes them react to what is 'true,' 'beautiful,' 'alive' as they say, like puppies that lie on their...
Answering Wilson's gibe that the choice of a 14th earl as Prime Minister is an "elegant anachronism," he said dryly: "I suppose Mr. Wilson, when you come to think of it, is the 14th Mr. Wilson. If all men are equal, well, that's a very good doctrine. But are we to say that all men are equal except peers?" Harold, who was promptly dubbed "the 14th Mr. Wilson" by the press, for the moment made no more attacks on the Tory leader's genealogy, and in fact paid him a grudging compliment. "The Tory Party...
Bearded Eminence. Still, Fields's Old Corner Book Store at one time seemed like Parnassus. Authors and editors gathered there daily to exchange puns and peanuts, to speculate, perhaps, about the success of Dickens' proposed lecture tour, and to gibe wittily at the shoddy products of the rival literary capital in New York. On the same morning a junior clerk might receive an elaborate good morning from Longfellow and an impersonal purchase order from the shy Hawthorne. In either case, the great man would soon wander to the rear of the store to join the crowd in Fields...
Rebuff at Strasbourg. De Gaulle derided the East-West test ban treaty with the gibe: "Numerous states have agreed, and for good reason: they lack the means to carry out the tests. It's a little bit like asking someone not to swim across the Channel." As for criticisms that Gaullist France has become increas ingly isolated in Western councils, De Gaulle proclaimed: "I can tell you with full knowledge of the facts that never has France been more closely supported or more sought after than today...
Boys in Baggies. The true surfer is scornful of the "ho-daddies" (a gibe of undetermined origin) and "grem-mies" (gremlins, usually girls), those hangers-on who may never get wet behind the ears as far as surfing goes but like to immerse themselves in the dense jargon of the in group. To all, "baggies" are the loose-legged boxer swim trunks worn by the boys. "Hot dogging" is either class-A surfing or show-off stuff. To "take gas" or "wipe out" is to lose a board in the curl of a wave and land in the foamy "soup...