Word: sarcasms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best of all war commentators spoke to the world last week. In the Berlin Sportspalast, before 10,000 wounded Nazis and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel on leave from Egypt (see p. 31), Adolf Hitler used the ponderous sledge hammer of his sarcasm to score on the Allied optimists who have refused to admit United Nations' defeats. Said...
STOUT (with lunch-counter sarcasm): "As you see, they've got the facts, no getting away from it. Take the six leading batters in the major leagues: Williams, Gordon, Wright, Reiser, Lombardi, Medwick. Some bunch of Germans. Also the great German prize fighter, Joe Louis...
Less emotionally, Nehru has claimed for years that the British Indian Government is effective only with repressive measures. He has stuck barbs of sarcasm into the classic Tory theory that Britain must dominate India because: 1) it is the bastion of empire and the bulwark of Britain's world power; 2) the economic standard of the British Isles is built on India's wealth; 3) without Britain's strong ruling hand, India's racial and religious groups, unable and untrained to govern themselves, will fly at each other's throats in anarchy, chaos and civil...
Associates know him as a calm man, a steady, levelheaded "slow burner." He speaks without wasting words, often with a dry, schoolteacher's sarcasm...
...effectively. Unless he has information on the present control of the Mediterranean which is unknown to the layman he would appear to speak unwisely. He may continue to dismiss the value of sea power with the pat chapter title "Mahan Was Wrongl," but until he brings facts rather than sarcasm to bear on the Admiral's theory, control of the sea lanes will still have a certain appeal to warring powers and the Mediterranean will still be a difficult "mare nostrum" in which to maintain lines of communication...