Word: peevishness
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...Peevish Utterance...
...more liberal wing will calmly accept the former vice-president. Most of its leaders have ambitions of their own, and their fight for the party's future is too serious to trust to the compromising Nixon. His attack on Governor Rockefeller and the Governor's reply ("This kind of peevish post-election utterance has unfortunately become typical of Mr. Nixon") signal a basic split...
...prostitute and finds that she is married to an old school chum; 2) a sodden playboy whose haymate, ample Antonella Lualdi, tumbles out of bed just in time to get dressed for her wedding; 3) an impatient Lothario who checks into a motel and seduces the chambermaid while his peevish girl friend waits in the car; 4) a barkeep who saves carfare by hitching a ride home every night with a car-couching whore, hops out at his front door feeling cheap but chaste; 5) a ragman who waxes indignant when an elegant lady clad in a filmy black negligee...
Barzun is peevish about so many things: "the mixing of peoples, the spate of democratic and totalitarian harangues, the burst of inventions and new sciences, the spawning of processes, abstractions and manufactured goods, the freedom to play with language that literacy and advertising encourage." He is even upset that people are living longer these days. "Unwanted by the business world, unwanted by their younger families, lacking authority, respect and responsibility," American oldsters may as well leave their Florida benches and march into the sea. Barzun has an irritating habit of telling other people how to live...
Next morning the President met for nearly two hours with top security aides, mapped the U.S. response to Castro's peevish move. Then, abruptly, he announced he would leave Washington, fly to Texas for the funeral of Mrs. Jesse C. Kellam, a longtime family friend and wife of the manager of Lady Bird's Austin television station...