Word: gibe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cynical Jeers. Médici was almost unknown outside the army. Three weeks ago, when he went on television before 90 million countrymen with the pro forma promise to see "democracy definitely installed in our country," Brazilians responded with cynical jeers. "In the U.S.," went one gibe, "there are general elections. In Brazil, the generals elect...
...decision," wrote Stewart in acerb conclusion. "Perhaps so, and perhaps, therefore, what I have said is quite unnecessary. But ten years of experience here have taught me that the most carefully written opinions are not always carefully read-even by those most directly concerned." Stewart's gibe may have seemed excessive to those who have read some of the court's "carefully written opinions," particularly when it is remembered that the Solicitor General, a former dean of the Harvard Law School, has had ample experience at the task...
...private principle. While it is a byword in government offices that "no one ever crosses Golda," no one who knows her is surprised at her egalitarian insistence, in the privacy of her home, of having her maid and chauffeur share her table, kibbutz-style. An opposition gibe that "all government decisions are cooked in Golda's kitchen" is obviously overbaked, but she does shift easily between home and state, breaking off from preparing a gefilte fish to salute an army courier or, as she did on one occasion, startling other guests by showing up with a cake...
...Angeles has long suffered from the gibe that it was a museum in search of a major collection. Now it has one. Says Director Kenneth Donahue: "This is the most important purchase the museum has made since it opened...
According to a cruel gibe at the time, Eshkol became Premier "to prove that Israel could get along without one." Lacking flair and unabashedly heimish (just plain folks), he ventured no flamboyant new policies but rather consolidated and institutionalized the investment of blood, money and effort of the earlier years. Under his leadership, Israelis fulfilled the ancient Jewish promise of meeting "next year in Jerusalem." His dream of seeing a new wave of immigration from Russia proved as elusive as peace with the Arabs, but he came somewhat closer to his political ambition of forging a single majority labor party...