Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Cosell's offense: during ABC's Monday-night broadcast of a football game between the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys, he referred to Alvin Garrett, a black wide receiver for the Redskins, as "that little monkey." Cosell's remark "was a slip that reflected a thought," said an incensed Lowery. Cosell, who at first denied the comment, was less abject than adenoidal, even though his remark had lit up the network's switchboard with angry calls. On his daily ABC radio show, Supermouth expressed his admiration for Garrett...
...enough that Ronald Reagan chose to use an ill-conceived bit of humor to make amends to a professional businesswomen's group. But to commit two grammatical errors in one brief remark may bring him a flood of mail from the nation's English teachers. He should have said, "If it weren't for women, we men .. ." It would appear that his grammar is as lacking as his ability to know his audience...
...against rig-ins began in 1979 with the chance remark of an Illinois paving contractor. He told a federal investigator looking into alleged bidding improprieties, "If you think it's bad here, you ought to see it in Tennessee." The Justice Department made haste to do exactly that, eventually prosecuting 44 cases in that state alone. Among those nailed: the brother and uncle of former Governor Ray Blanton. As guilty contractors began plea bargaining for lighter sentences and lower fines, they implicated other firms outside Tennessee, a process that quickly revealed an ever widening web of anticompetitive conspiracy...
...outlining a moderately liberal political course, however, Deng conveniently leaves out past statements that were too far to the left or right for comfort. Missing from Selected Works is his embarrassing 1966 admission that he was guilty of"prolonged neglect of Mao thought," as well as his 1978 remark that "if the masses feel some anger, we must let them express...
...always find that truth and beauty cannot both be served. Something has to go. Voltaire's parting shot when he left Holland ("Adieu, canaux, canards, canaille!") may be accurately rendered in English as "Farewell, canals, ducks, rabble!" The only thing missing is everything that made Voltaire's remark so witty and memorably alliterative in French. If a four-word mot successfully thwarts attempts to export it, the problems posed by an epic poem more than 10,000 lines long, written two millenniums ago in a language now deceased, are likely to be proportionately more impossible...