Word: sarcasms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yost used to say. "You build it day by day." It is another Yost dictum that Oosterbaan follows by keeping players relaxed and happy. (As a sophomore, he himself was once kicked off the squad for "lassitude" by an assistant coach, but Yost got him back.) He never uses sarcasm to goad a player, never loses his temper, almost never makes dressing-room pep speeches...
...designs on their dwindling lands, with the impoverished ones who sneer at his peasant origins while scheming to trap him into marriage with their daughters. The dialogue may be racy in Italian, but in Lawrence's English it comes out as a series of blurted phrases overloaded with sarcasm and exclamation points. It all seems as noisy as an Italian kitchen when the pasta has boiled over on the baby. But Novelist Verga tells his story with a superb eye for the beauty and squalor of his Sicilian village-its busybody priest scurrying among the decaying mansions and their...
...county, where 20 peasants were killed or wounded when they tried to storm Communist storage granaries. The peasant resentment was so bad, People's Daily admitted, that "most party workers are either afraid of offending the masses, or were blamed by their own families . . . They are afraid of sarcasm and afraid to lead. They feel the work is so difficult that they develop weary sentiments...
Nehru was scornful. "Why under the United Nations?" he asked with heavy sarcasm. "I should think Ceylon would be quite enough...
...consider disciplinary measures against the rebels, Pietro Secchia among them. Some demanded expulsion from the party, but Togliatti talked Secchia into suppressing his demands for sterner policies in return for a promise of no reprisals against the rebels. Then, Palmiro Togliatti strutted back into public view to pretend, by sarcasm and ridicule, that such a thing as dissent had never existed. "Comic . . . ridiculous . . . grotesque," said Togliatti. "These reports only show how stupid our enemies are. We are glad of this because stupid enemies are easier to fight than intelligent enemies." The delegates roared their approval, and 1,200 hands voted...