Word: rakingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part in it. When both Kefauver and Michigan's Senator Philip Hart questioned how Westinghouse could effectively plan to prevent recurrences if it had not made a detailed investigation of the past, Cresap insisted: "I am not making a thorough investigation. I have not devoted my efforts to raking over the coals of the past. My efforts have been devoted to making sure the ship is in shape today." Said Senator Hart: "I have the greatest difficulty getting it through my noodle why management seems to feel that it isn't cricket to rake over the coals...
...gaunt good man who did what he had to do. He turned down the fattest male film part ever written-Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind-because he thought he "wasn't quite that dashing," and felt bad about playing the middle-aged rake in Love in the Afternoon. He was right: the Virginian would have thrashed a man who treated Audrey Hepburn that...
...opposition M.P.s presently in jail can testify, it is not healthy to lambaste Ghana's government or its leader, Osagyefo (the Redeemer) Kwame Nkrumah. Hence the public astonishment last week when two of Osagyefo's own Cabinet ministers took the floor in Parliament itself to rake the great man over the coals...
Everyone demanded a right to dictate the way to peace in the Congo, but few wanted to pay for the privilege. For weeks U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold had pleaded, cajoled, warned and wheedled in the effort to rake up funds for his 20,000-man Congo force. But member nations still owed $24 million for his 1960 operations alone, not to mention the $120 million he would have to spend this year. Of the U.N.'s 99 members, only six (Australia, Ireland, The Netherlands, Canada, Britain, the U.S.) had paid or promised to pay any of last year...
Before it went bankrupt, the Self was a proud and preening god. Nearly a century ago, Walt Whitman trumpeted: "I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious." The Self as deity pursued power (Faust) and pleasure (Don Juan). It achieved satiety, the rake's progress "from pain to ennui, from lust to disgust," which Fitch finds symbolically typified time and again in Aldous Huxley's heroes. At the end of Point Counter Point, the lovers, Burlap and Beatrice, "pretended to be two little children and had their bath together. And what...