Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most singles know that a single man cannot be a thing of beauty and a boy forever and that a single girl is like a single letter in the alphabet, waiting to mean something to someone. Even the most swinging single, who has been insisting "Not yet," inevitably crosses a watershed when the question becomes a panicky "Is it too late?" Ultimately, the singles devoutly wish that they weren...
...made some mistakes that most mountaineers would routinely avoid and that these errors were largely responsible for the tragedy. In talking with Mr. Washburn, I find that he had only sketchy information and did not at first understand why the expedition split into two groups. He certainly did not mean to imply that the tactics were responsible for the tragedy...
WHAT is the relationship between the Mason-Dixon line, the DMZ, the China Wall, the 38th parallel and the Berlin Wall? What do the words Realpolitik and denouement mean...
Sandy, then and still, belches throughout rehearsals. "Gigantic belches," recalls Burton. "I mean enormous ones, like a drunken sailor. Elizabeth is also a good belcher, so they had competitions, but Sandy nearly always won for number and volume." Musing over Dennis the Retired Menace last week while shooting an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Milk Train in Sardinia, Richard and Elizabeth seemed about to replay Edward Albee's "Get the Guest." Then Liz turned to Richard and purred: "It's awful, dear, but I'm afraid we just can't find anything nasty to say about...
Neither side wanted to show its hand until the last minute. Reuther remained mum about what "substantial wage increases" might mean, offered no clue as to the relative priorities of his 28 other major demands. The automakers decided not to put their proposals on the table until this week, only ten days or so before contracts expire on Sept. 6. The idea was to give the union less time for the usual grandstanding rejections of early offers-but the U.A.W. managed a bit of histrionics anyway. Woodcock saw it all as an industry plot that was "geared to making...