Word: petulante
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The scene was a little overdramatic, but then, dictators must take no chances. The man whisked out of Portugal to asylum in Brazil was Premier António de Oliveira Salazar's biggest problem-Humberto Delgado, a balding Portuguese general-turned-politician, who had spent the past three months...
Author Leon (Battle Cry) Uris, 34, spent two years and traveled 50,000 miles getting the facts for his story, and he relates it in a serviceable, exclamatory prose. But he has written a novel as well as history, and no amount of research can help him in his fiction...
Veiled women shrilled their adulation, and students bore him on their shoulders through the streets when Habib Bourguiba returned from exile to lead Tunisia to independence. They cheered again when he deposed the old Bey of Tunis and had himself proclaimed President of the new republic. But in the last...
The record of Orwell's social immolation is still fascinating reading today, not only for the great clarity with which Orwell describes an appalling landscape-with-figures but for the honesty with which he argues with himself about it all. That rare creature, a bitter man with no self...
Their affair seems to offer each of them a chance of recapturing the hopes of youth. Anthony accepts his own degradation but romantically believes that Christiane has been able to carry her innocence through the mire of the years. Yet nothing has changed. He is still the petulant adolescent and...