Word: pissant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American country. China interests him primarily through the prism of Moscow-Washington-Peking politics. I once had an argument about all this with Vadim Zagladin, deputy to Boris Ponomarev, chief of the Central Committee's International Department. Speaking of Africa, I remarked on the futility of "playing with some pissant little 'liberation' committees that come into being overnight and disappear after a few months." Zagladin's response was revealing: "You sound just like your boss. Gromyko has no smell for the ideological side of things. He's just too pragmatic, and so are you. You Foreign Ministry people...
...filmed-and-recorded stint at the Bowl, I was not alone. Dozens of Hollywood denizens entered their seats singing the "Lumberjack" song, many wore knotted Gumby hankies on their heads, and several hundred of us later raised our voices in the Philosopher's Song ("Emmanuel Kant was a real pissant...