Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this whining and whimpering from the Prime Minister." When Wilson claimed to have answered a question that he really had not, Tory Chairman Anthony Barber exclaimed: "That confirms the suspicion of the whole country that the right honorable gentleman is a twister." The Speaker asked Barber to withdraw the remark. Some of the harshest criticism was leveled at Wilson by the former head of the Bank of England, Lord Cromer. Unlike Britain's two previous devaluations in 1931 and 1949, he said, "this time devaluation was the outcome solely of the government's policies...
...control over local programs that they had long asked for. The leadership agreed, not only mollifying Southerners but also assuring that big-city Democratic machines would throw their all into the battle. The dramatic change had been found. "Bossism and boll weevil!" cried an outraged Charlie Goodell. The remark won his cause few Southern votes...
...like most De Vries heroes, is a wit who can't get with it-it being the way of the world. Nothing really odd about him, though he does remark that "Christ and the Jews of his time were working at cross purposes." Joe wants to do good, and he tries. But the girl he kept in stitches as a suitor soon gagged on his wit as a wife. When her father took him into his brokerage office, watching the tape made him physically dizzy, and the securities he recommended for widows and orphans soon became known as "laughing...
...under Mike Nichols' direction The Little Foxes didn't seem a tale of nouveau-riche aspirations. Actors used every remark, every glance, every flick of the wrist to overwhelm a rival. The battle, it turned out, was not so much for extra dollars as for some kind of recognition from the family. With the Hubbards you're either one up on everybody--or ignored...
...long-time (1935-63) Republican Congressman from Michigan; of pneumonia; in Allegan, Mich. Hoffman generated so much bile over F.D.R., the New Deal, organized labor, and U.S. internationalism that even fellow Republicans were uneasy in his terrible-tongued presence, and Massachusetts' Democrat John McCormack was once moved to remark: ''I hold all my colleagues in highest esteem. I hold the gentleman from Michigan in my minimum-highest esteem...