Word: peevishness
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...memory and caught upon it the breath of three lives: his mother's, his sister's and his own. In a lower-middle-class apartment in a Mid western city, Amanda Wingfield ("an exact portrait of my mother," says Williams) tries to cope with a peevish present by chattering of a fancied past. The son Tom (Williams) suffocates in a shoe factory and goes to movies to daydream of escape. The daughter Laura (Williams' sister Rose) has a mind and a personality as fragile as the little glass animals that deck her room. But the mother dragoons...
Khrushchev also was talking about negotiations-in peevish, uncertain terms. Reporting back to Kennedy from a conference with Khrushchev at the Soviet leader's Black Sea dacha, Disarmament Adviser John McCloy found the Russian to be totally belligerent in mood-and irrational in manner. Khrushchev, said McCloy, was "absolutely serious" about extracting what he called the "rotten tooth" of Berlin. To Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani, who called on him last week, Khrushchev warned of a nuclear war that would wipe out Italy and Britain (where the U.S. has missile bases) if the West attempted to preserve...
...Never "peevish," always sunny and generous (like mischievous, young [37] TIME magazine, in fact), I did not refer to the admirable Arthur Miller as a "writer-cripple" [Jan. 18]. That is Miller's phrase, not mine; it appears in its proper context in a theater piece I wrote for the current Partisan Review...
Like love triangles throughout history, Russia's recent flirtation with the West has resulted in jealousy and political temper-tantrums on the part of China. The atrocities in Tibet, squabbles with India, denunciations of the U.A.R. and Yugoslavia are the embarrassing and peevish actions of a self-righteous and somewhat neglected power...
...over one word: liver. The FTC first tried in 1943 to get the "Liver"' dropped from Carter's Little Liver Pills. The pills, said the agency, did not help a sluggish liver, would not necessarily relieve that ''worn-out, sluggish, allin, listless, tired, stuffy, cranky, peevish, bogged-down" feeling. After 142 hearings in six cities (and 11,000 pages of testimony), the FTC issued a cease-and-desist order, only to have it tossed out by the U.S. Court of Appeals. After an appeal to the Supreme Court, which ordered further hearings, the FTC tried again...