Word: samsonian
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That great need for the most dramatic of legacies, U.S. war planners fear, might make Saddam choose not only death but a Samsonian version of it: the dictator, as psychiatrist Post imagines it, "lashing out with all the resources at his disposal." President Bush must agree, which is why he sent those bombs crashing into Saddam's bunkers, hoping to get Saddam before he could bring down Armageddon on anyone else. --Reported by Douglas Waller and Adam Zagorin/Washington, Aparisim Ghosh and Helen Gibson/London, Bruce Crumley/Paris, Scott MacLeod/Cairo and Simon Robinson/Nairobi
Governor's Club. The cause of Kirk's Samsonian ire was the Supreme Court's January order directing "immediate" desegregation in a number of school districts in Florida and four other Southern states. Although he is almost a liberal (by Florida standards) on racial matters, Kirk also knows an issue when he sees one. His voluble but futile protests had been doing wonders for his local political standing, which had sunk to a low ebb after his bumbling attempt to win the 1968 G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination and disclosures that much of Kirk's high living...
...Flying Officer Kyte, a feet-off-the-ground burlesque of Britain's wartime flyboys, complete with Samsonian mustaches and a rich flow of RAFfish lingo ("Bang on, wacko, wizard show, I care for that, HA, HA!"). Characteristic Kyte joke: "Whale of a party, sir. I went as radar ... a picture of Queen Anne and a placard pinned to my trousers." Barker: "What did it say?" Kyte: "Dead on the beam...
...half time, with Cornhusker power matched by Indian guile, the score had seesawed to 14-13, in favor of the Indians. Then, in the third quarter, after Nebraska had staged a Samsonian goal-line stand, the stadium suddenly shook with a thunderous roar. With his teammates giving an incredible display of downfield blocking, Stanford's Pete Kmetovic, running back Nebraska's punt, scooted over the Nebraska goal line in a 40-yd. zigzag sprint-with all of the Cornhuskers flat on their faces behind him. The Nebraskans failed to score again. So the Indians stuck another feather...
...congratulations cannot fail to extend, too, to the above-mentioned Pillar, which has taken its demolishment with such good grace. Has it already bounced back into place again, regardless of this Samsonian effort from across the Charles? Has it now become a chastened pillar, a sadder and wiser Transcript? We wonder. But, senatim, we congratulate our august contemporary on the magnificent burst of gratis advertising which it has received...
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