Word: sheepishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sheepish Surrender. Scarcely had the streets been cleared than ten new plastic bombs exploded in widely separated parts of Paris. One blew in the windows of the Soviet news agency, Tass. At week's end a one-hour workers' strike to protest the police methods used to break up the Bastille demonstration stalled Parisian industry and business. City and suburban buses halted, the Paris subway and commuter train service was affected. Actress Brigitte Bardot, who had won respect last November by publicly defying an S.A.O. blackmail attempt, walked off a movie set along with film technicians...
...week for the government. Yet there was one piece of good news from Algeria: a military patrol near Philippeville rounded up 40 uniformed men wearing S.A.O. armbands; they called themselves the "Bonaparte Commando." The entire group was captured without a shot being fired, and their sheepish surrender strengthened those Gaullists who have maintained that the S.A.O. detachments, though capable of bombings and isolated assassinations, have no stomach for a showdown fight...
...punster who sees the laughable relations between words, but not those between people. An Indian in the present novel refers to his mother as "Sweet Sioux." A malaproping wife says that a nominal fee is "nominal in name only." At best, this sort of thing produces a sheepish smile, and at worst, a wince of embarrassment. And De Vries is no more able than any other punmaker to hold back his worst. Possibly De Vries' worst refers to a "great" comedian: "Harry has many things that make him grate...