Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is something strange, say some visitors to Israel, when, every hour on the hour, a whole country stops to listen to the news. There is something wrong, they remark, when the sound of an airplane makes a whole nation look upward and sigh with relief when the plane is recognized as a friend...
Burgess' insular joke book is old, but the joke is a good one and the author tells it with relish, as if for the first time. An example of the author's catholic English wit: loony squire replying to a patronizing remark of the vicar's about animal pleasures: "And don't be too hard on animals. There's a lot of good in animals, especially when they're killed and cooked...
...friend started to answer, but, before he could get three words out of his mouth, the clubbie cut him off with the drippingly sarcastic remark, " This will do a lot to end the war." In others words, he didn't really care what was going on up at Mass Ave. A confrontation is a confrontation, and the clubbie had his party line on that subject all nearly prepared...
Freckles and Braces. The daughter of a public-health pathologist in Oxford, Maggie grew up with freckles on her face and braces on her teeth. She still recalls her grandmother's remark to her mother when Maggie announced that she wanted to go into the theater: "Oh, you can't let her, not with that face." But it didn't keep her from working her way up from the prompter's chair to walk-on parts as a maid, and then to traditional repertory...
...corporate clients that they would be "bombed" by the White House if they put through planned price boosts. In some cases, he says the clients did not raise prices; in others they did, but told him later that they wished they had not. After Nixon's press-conference remark discarding the jawbone, Rinfret sent telegrams to all his corporate clients advising them to go ahead and make any price boosts they had in mind. Some...