Word: ruefulnesses
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...Robert J. Moon is a Chicago physicist who worked on the famed Manhattan Project. Thus, he knows a lot of "classi fied" (secret) facts about how Jo make atomic bombs. Last week he came to the rueful conclusion that his knowledge was threatening to be a bar to professional advancement...
After Molotov's Paris walkout (TIME, July 14), the Soviet Union hastily buttressed its economic spite-fence. In 30 days, twelve new trade pacts were signed between Moscow and satellites, or satellites and satellites. Shotgun treaties herded satellites more snugly into the Soviet economic pen. One rueful, resigned Rumanian characterized a Soviet trade agreement: "It is more blessed for us to give than to receive...
...July 14) seemed to have whisked back to Wonderland. A few U.S. citizens still saw them, last week; so did people in England, Italy, Chile, Iran, Holland, Japan and China (see A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER). But by last week the "somethings" had petered out into a trail of rueful headshaking and self-conscious laughter...
...early model, many a rueful buyer knew the answer: It was advertised as sure to write even under water, but on dry land (and on shirts and coats) it leaked...
...Cleopatra lived together in the most literal sense of the phrase. Cleopatra bore him a son, Caesarion, who was promising enough to be assassinated eventually by order of Octavian. In Shaw's charming fiction, they warily skirt the quagmires of passion while the aging political genius, with rueful avuncular irony, helps to convert the puppet Queen from a fierce child into a woman, ripe for Mark Antony's plucking...