Word: gloating
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...times, of course, with several seas (Red, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean) to fish in, Cousteau's camera can hardly help making a spectacular catch. There are frames that spurt, slumber, dazzle, gloat like stained-glass windows in a sunken cathedral. There is an oozily loathsome shot of the sea squirt, a creature that resembles nothing so much as a length of large intestine on the loose. There is a lot of helling around the coral reefs on submarine scooters that look like sawed-off torpedoes. And there is a hilarious conversation among whales, in which the moviegoer learns an awful...
...called Dulles' attitude an illustration of "American diplomacy at its worst." To gloat when an opponent follows the policy we like, Perry wrote, is not only bad manners, but detrimental to our foreign relations...
SMIRK, SNEER, CONSPIRE, PLOT, DECEIVE, GLOAT, CONNIVE, LEER and DEFAME...
...straightened out for a year" [TIME, Jan. 19]-he reveals himself in his true dimensions. Does he actually believe that he is to be congratulated for magnanimously not throwing a wrench into the workings of the most powerful country of the free world? How could he gloat over not using the power which his fellow citizens entrusted to him in 1948 to jeopardize the overall security of the nation? On this basis, everyone who is not a criminal should receive a medal for merit...
Pittsburgh's A. G. Trimble, a leading manufacturer of "I Like Ike" buttons, designed a new button saying: "I Told You So." He was not likely to find many customers; the victors were not much in the mood to gloat. The Republicans, said one Kentucky Democrat, were "like the mountain boy who courted the same woman for 20 years. When she finally gave in, he sat down and cried because he was afraid he might do something wrong." All over the country, people were paying off election bets. In Lowell, Mass., one loser let himself be bombarded by custard...