Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bully," says Monsignor Philip Kenney, vicar of community affairs for the ManChester diocese. "A lot of people who have been duped by him should read this book." Adds former New Hampshire Governor Walter Peterson, whose teenage daughter suffered an emotional breakdown after Loeb vilified her for an innocent remark about marijuana use: "Kevin Cash has performed a significant public service...
Perera's ouster led to a break with the Trotskyites, who had been in uneasy coalition with the Prime Minister's Sri Lanka Freedom Party. The apparent cause of the political spat was a remark reputedly made by Perera to the effect that Mrs. Bandaranaike's husband had no consistent policy. Perera later apologized for giving offense, but Mrs. Bandaranaike replied that her party would not tolerate "throat cutting hi the guise of unity" and forced the Trotskyites out of the government. Others believe the firing of Perera was the result of a tug of war within...
Luck also helped the Crimson in the 600-yard run. Although Peters won, Martin and Gary Schmidt of Harvard tied for second only one-tenth of a second behind. It was finishes such as that of the 600-yard event which caused McCurday to remark, "whenever points were in doubt, they went...
...concerns the House of Lords. Gilbert has his Lord Mountararat (a name suggesting the aristocracy's excessive reverence for ancestry) proclaim that "If there is a single institution that is unsusceptible of any improvement whatsoever, it is the House of the Lords." This recalls the Duke of Wellington's remark a half-century earlier that Parliament was perfect--on the eve of the Reform Bill...
...joke about Italian tanks having five gears, one forward and four reverse. When Die Welt printed the Chancellor's jape, the Italian government was not amused. Schmidt's aides promptly reached for their own reverse gears. Accepting German denials that Schmidt had ever made the remark, the Italian embassy in Bonn declared the case closed. "After all," an official observed diplomatically, "Germany and Italy are NATO allies and members of the European community...