Word: sassing
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...Grind & Sass. In the worst of the labor pinch, the President had to cut down on his afternoon reducing exercises and grind through long, wearing conferences. Cheerful George Allen took to his bed, and the President lost four valued Administration lieutenants.† The C.I.O.'s young, yeasty United Packinghouse Workers sassed him (see below...
Meanwhile Colonel Perón and the proud Argentines were exhilarated, most Latin Americans were secretly (or openly) delighted, and even some North Americans were amused to see the brat from the Rio de la Plata stand up and sass back the Colossus of the North...
...from fellows won't take any sass...
...first "press conference," five-month-old Harold Ickes Jr., spit-&-image son of the Secretary of the Interior, posed for photographers (see cut), was irreverently labeled by newsmen "Young Ick" and "Scion of Sass." Shy, serious, six-foot David Rockefeller, youngest of John D. Jr.'s five sons, rode in Manhattan's subway to the Municipal Lodging House, looked over its rooms, ate a six-and-a-half-cent meal (corn soup, codfish, celery and green peppers, applesauce, milk) with homeless men, rode back in the subway to make notes for his University of Chicago Ph.D. thesis...
Inspector Hornleigh (Twentieth Century-Fox), another Buy-British reprint from the Scotland Yard files, involves three murders and the theft of the British budget from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Not a patch on Scotland Yardman Ralph Richardson for verve and sass (see above), grey, efficient Cinemactor Gordon Harker is nevertheless painstaking proof that it takes all sorts of cinemen to man the Yard...