Word: petulante
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Having served under Ambassador Moynihan in India, I can appreciate that you understand his talents and idiosyncrasies. His appointment gives us, at long last, a spokesman of courage and conviction. His forthright manner was bound to disturb the U.N. I suggest that some Churchillian growls of support from Britain'...
Both speeches were little more than exercises in fantasy. In fact, it was the Argentine military that had acted in both situations, adroitly defusing the coup and smashing the terrorist assault in the bloodiest government-guerrilla engagement to date. While Juan Perón's petulant widow went through...
I shouldn't complain, I suppose. Here I am at Harvard, first of all, and I have a nice room in Currier House. I share a bathroom with someone who can't stand any of the music I play (even when it's classical) and who stays up all night...
Though the cast is far from blameless, the graver error lies with Director Anthony Page. When Lear goes mad on the storm-blistered heath, it is not because his daughters Goneril and Regan have turned their backs on him but because God has. Shakespeare means us to know that the...
The interview was taped only four days after the Communist takeover in Saigon. Although Kissinger's aides suggested that his aim was "to make foreign policy understandable," he quite clearly had a second purpose: to show that the Secretary of State was alive and well and not (as some...