Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moved to a new post in a Cabinet reshuffle within a month or two. Wilson, on the other hand, was conveniently obscure or deftly evasive in his television address to the country. What particularly irked his critics was his declaration to the British that devaluation "does not, of course, mean that the pound here in Britain in your pocket or purse or in your bank has been devalued...
...Turkish troops set foot on Cyprus, warned the Greeks, it would not only mean war with Greece but would inevitably start a slaughter of Turkish Cypriots that no number of Turkish soldiers would be able to prevent. Yet so great was the public pressure in Turkey on Premier Demirel for quick action that the Greeks themselves despaired that the warning could halt the train of events. Athens stopped broadcasting weather bulletins so that the Turkish air force could not use them to plot bombing missions. Reports from Turkey said that the invasion fleet was waiting only for the onset...
...letters to her, often smuggled out by a sympathetic guard, contain several impressive statements of his Christian conviction. On Aug. 12, 1943, he wrote: "You cannot imagine what it means in my present situation to have you. Our union can only be a sign of God's grace and kindness, which calls us to faith. And I do not mean the faith which flees the world, but the one that endures the world. Our marriage shall be a yes to God's earth. I fear that Christians who stand with only one leg upon earth also stand with...
...only a few pennies-after the Christmas holidays. Devaluation will shave the profits of some American-owned firms with large British operations. Food-packing H. J. Heinz, for one, figures on a 16?-a-share decrease in its earnings; yet altogether, predicted Heinz President R. Burt Gookin, devaluation will mean "no more than a ripple in the U.S. economy...
...obviously produce poshlost or are, for other reasons, Nabokov's black pets. "Many accepted authors simply do not exist for me. Their names are engraved on empty graves, their books are dummies, they are complete nonentities insofar as my taste in reading is concerned. Brecht, Faulkner, Camus, many others, mean absolutely nothing to me, and I must fight a suspicion of conspiracy against my brain when I see blandly accepted as 'great literature' by critics and fellow authors Lady Chatterley's copulations or the pretentious nonsense of Mr. Pound, that total fake. I note he has replaced Dr. Schweitzer...