Word: pettish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thrown. No student of women's-magazine prose can fail to understand the symbolic significance of this, and it has nothing to do with horseback riding. The groom (servants are as clever as presidential speechwriters in this sort of fiction) is Fate, and Georgie's pettish assertion of masculinity means that he is in for about 300 pages of fatefulness...
...shown before that he is capable of more than phonographic reiterations of his country's determination to fight. The chance remains for him to try to show--in a television address--that the stakes of the Cuban issue are war itself, too important to be sacrificed to an essentially pettish desire for revenge and even to the U.S.' understandable distaste for Castro's regime...