Word: huff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...working class where we belong," for, says he, "we have nothing to lose but our aitches." The British middle classes, however, have stubbornly continued to cling to their social aspirations and their aspirates. Class war may be 'ell. but the better-bred Briton has decided to huff it out on his own side of the phonetic fence...
...trial in Paris in 1949, and for several days she sat in the dock with a "fixed expression of self-satisfied insolence" while witness after witness testified about the men and women she had betrayed. She chewed gum during the prosecutor's summing up, burst into a huff only when the judge revealed that Bleicher had confided that he slept with her only out of a sense of "duty." She was sentenced to "national indignity" and the guillotine, but because of her undeniable services to the Allies, the death sentence was set aside on appeal...
Died. Philip Danforth Armour, 64, onetime first vice president (and grandson of the founder) of Chicago's meat-packing Armour & Co., who resigned (in 1931) in a huff after he failed to become its president; of a heart attack; in his Palm Beach, Fla. home...
Japan retaliated by arresting some 1,720 Koreans, most of them illegal immigrants, others habitual criminals and longtime residents of Japan. In this atmosphere, talks between Japan and Korea have inevitably been difficult. Four years ago in Tokyo the Korean delegation walked out in a huff when a Japanese spokesman ventured that Japan's occupation of Korea was not entirely bad, that Korea had benefited to the extent of railroads, power systems and public buildings...
...there. French are hopping mad because State Department turned down Air France request to carry passengers beyond New York to Kansas City, Houston and Los Angeles. Although U.S. offered to let Air France start flights from West Coast to Europe via North Pole, French broke off negotiations in a huff...