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Word: picayunish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hotel des Roses, U.N. headquarters in Rhodes, they were faced with a gigantic mural of the original sin: a naked Adam & Eve, the serpent and the apple. A few minutes later, the U.N. mediator, Bible-minded Ralph Bunche, tossed them another allegory. Urging both sides to avoid recriminations and "picayunish" quarrels, he said: "There are many eyes here, and motes can be readily found in them." He also warned "governments not involved" in the negotiations not to meddle. "Just a friendly tip to the British," said one of his aides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Many Eyes, Many Motes | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...himself off and tried to look both innocent and unruffled. "There was some talking back and forth when I presented the draft at the Pentagon," he recalled. "When the President goes off and leaves me in charge, I don't have time to pay much attention to little picayunish things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Little Picayunish Things | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...good deal of the trouble connected with Washington really isn't his fault. Misguided legend-makers foisted such monstrosities on five generations of Americans as "Father, I cannot tell a lie," and "First in war, first in peace . . ." Those harmless little tidbits are setups for prep school cynics and picayunish parodyists. But unfortunately the well-meaning myth-manglers have escaped their due punishment. Poor old George Washington takes it all, and he's been taking it in varying doses for 150 years. It's a credit to him that he has borne it all so patiently, and that the date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bury the Hatchet | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

Itemized Bill. In Kansas City, Mo., a woman sued for divorce, complained that her husband was "disagreeable, irritable, morbid, cool, bitter, jealous, heckling, picayunish, loathsome, insulting, brazen, miserly, gluttonish, temperamental, selfish, contemptuous, inattentive, uncivil and inconsiderate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...hate to be picayunish in our criticism of your estimable magazine but we can't let pass unnoticed an incidental item which appeared in your issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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