Word: glib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike his predecessor, glib, huckster-handed William Benton, George Allen* is quiet and undramatic. But he is no softie. In Iran, he not only acquired a thorough, first-hand knowledge of U.S.S.R. pressure techniques, but demonstrated firmness in dealing with them...
Most combat veterans will probably find Peter's constant concern with his war-fractured sensitivity-and his glib articulateness about it-only annoying. And all veterans will look in vain for anything like real understanding of their difficulties and disappointments since victory...
...recognition, rather than the shock of surprise. More forcibly than anyone in his age, Gandhi had asserted that love was the law; how else should he die but through hatred? He had feared machines in the hands of men not wise enough to use them, had warned against the glib, the new, the plausible; how else should he die, but by a pistol in the hands of a young intellectual...
Cramer knows his stuff, there is no doubt about that. He was able to supplement the text when I evidenced ignorance of some particular reference, and he showed a glib familiarity with treaty dates, foreign phrases, and the like...
...dialectic, to a Times survey comparing the hours spent by typical Russian and American workers in earning everything from a loaf of bread to a suit (TIME, Dec. 29). Shisheyev had "analyzed" the figures quoted in a Voice of America broadcast; in pooh-poohing them, he showed an uncommonly glib familiarity with U.S. university bulletins and labor statistics...