Word: pips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public life have ever endured more concentrated public abuse than Lindsay took, with remarkable restraint, from Mike Quill. At one time or another, Quill branded Lindsay "a common, ordinary coward," a "pip-squeak," "a boy in short pants" and "an ass." He accused the mayor of reaching the "heights of stupidity," purposely and consistently mispronounced his name as Lindsley...
...Pips & Cows. There were other reasons for confusion. In the darkness, every pip on the portable radar screens and every shadow under the periodic flares that burst over Hill 327 was suspect. One night a cow wandered innocently into range and was gunned down. Three Marines returning from a night patrol approached a sentry in the dark, and two were tragically killed when the nervous guard challenged and fired on them in a single, startled motion...
...President "has shown a lack of ability to keep on top of the important things in foreign policy." Richard Nixon said in Cincinnati that he found it hard "to name any place in the world where the U.S. is not being blackmailed, threatened, insulted or knocked around by some pip-squeak dictator." Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton said foreign policy was becoming the No. 1 campaign issue in 1964, urged the G.O.P. to "take advantage of this...
...Bath Beach and John the Bug; Mr. Gribs and The Gap, Kid Blast and The Sidge; The Sheik and The Cat; Benny the Bum, Teddy the Bum and Jerry the Lug; Big Sam, Fat Dom and Fat Freddie; Good Looking Al, Big Nose Nick, Cockeye Nick and Cockeye Phil; Pip the Blind and Eyeglasses. And three fellows named Tea Bags, Four Cents and Blah Blah...
Frightened or not, the officers make Pip doubt the sincerity of his motives, and he pivots on his Achilles' heel right into the officers' ranks. Played out to the anthem of God Save the Queen, the final scene is an ironic blend of parade-ground smartness and mocking bitterness. Pip has been broken, and the conscripts are to be shipped out as clerk fodder. Though Wesker probably intended something more hopeful, his play says in sum that you can't change the bloody upper classes-or the bloody lower classes either...