Word: gibe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gromyko: Sophistry. Gromyko listened stonily to Kennedy-except for a thin smile at a Kennedy gibe comparing Khrushchev's wall building in Berlin to the Czar's orders in Pushkin's Boris Godunov. Next day, in his reply, Gromyko used a tone that was-by Russian standards-moderate, particularly on Berlin. But there was little in his words be yond a recital of well-known Soviet points: Russia will not accept a treaty to end nuclear tests, said Gromyko, for the whole matter should be tied in with (and, presumably, stalled by) the tangled question of overall...
Chote is less than a simple climber. He is an empty man, one of nature's nihilists. For every serious matter he has a tweeded pose and a hollow, echoing gibe. He even sneaks into one or another of Oxford's numerous, empty churches, but nothing happens in the gothic twilight...
...Sturdley are obsessed to an indecent degree by love of money and of security. In this situation, the usual English envy-hatred syndrome focuses upon the American undergraduates who resent being taunted for having money, especially when they don't have it. One Yank at Oxford suffers one gibe too many at American opulence, McCarthyism, U.S. football and so on, and retorts with tart justice: "At least we don't sit around talking about pension plans before we've even graduated...
...Charles de Gaulle's declining prestige among France's restless intellectuals that they now feel free to make De Gaulle himself a pincushion for barbed French satire. The shafts fly at him from right, left and center. On radio, television and in Montmartre cellars, the traditional chansonniers gibe irreverently at De Gaulle's big-power pretensions and the docility of his Cabinet. A favorite target is Premier Michel Debré, who is depicted, not altogether incorrectly, as a puppet and errand boy. One chansonnier lyric has De Gaulle asking Debré the time. Debr...
...what they considered the Kennedy steamroller tactics, the Republican Convention in Chicago conveyed an impression of unity, earnestness and respectability. Nixon's acceptance speech went over with the TV audience a lot better than Kennedy's, with its ill-advised rewriting of Lincoln, his "malice for all" gibe at Nixon. Kennedy's choice of Texan Lyndon Johnson as his running mate seemed clever power politics at the time, but failed to stir any enthusiasm in the South, or anywhere else. Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was Nixon's second choice-when Rockefeller would...