Word: sarcasms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...list of 100 obvious phrases and rating the ideas as "quite important," "of average importance," or "not important." For instance, reports Sperry, "the group . . . rated 'To help children with their academic problems' as 'quite important.' When we came to the eighth phrase ('To avoid sarcasm or "talking down" in your relations with children') . . . there was an uneasy silence...
...where the paper-or papers-should be started. The Guild's idealistic plan: to get other unions to back Guild newspapers with funds and subscriptions, but to keep their editorial policies (though prolabor) free from "the vagaries of union politics." Commented the New York Daily News, with tolerant sarcasm: NICE IDEA, GENTS...
...post as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in the spring of 1948 and raised him to the Cabinet. Destined as Harry Truman seemed to be at that time for political retirement, the President apparently could not find anyone else to take the job. "Charles Brannan," said Brannan recently with subdued sarcasm, "was just a guy keeping a chair warm ... for four or five months until a good Republican could move in." Believing, like his boss, that Gallup could be wrong, Charlie Brannan had campaigned tirelessly across the Farm Belt, helping to save his boss...
Then with a touch of sarcasm in his voice, he went on: Of course, it couldn't be that the Chief Executive could take credit for this pleasant state of affairs. It would have taken place anyway if a moron had been on the job-at least, that's the way some of the press reports it. But the President can take credit for it-and that is just what the President proposes...
...Suzuki lounged about, watching Kazuyoshi. Yoshio, a hulking youth, as slow-witted as Lennie in John Steinbeck's Of Mice & Men, had an unlit cigarette in his mouth; he pointed to it and glanced a question at Kazuyoshi. "This gasoline won't burn," said Kazuyoshi with a sarcasm that was lost on simple Yoshio. Yoshio lit his cigarette, tossed the match on some spilled gasoline...