Word: short-circuited
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...oracular voice that every Frenchman tries hopelessly to imitate. It belonged to Charles de Gaulle, who in a nationwide address announced his plans for a strengthened presidential system by which his successor would be elected directly by the people (TIME, Sept. 21). Though De Gaulle's proposal would short-circuit the constitution and has already enraged politicians of all parties, his grandiloquent dialogue between "you Frenchmen and Frenchwomen and my self" only heightened the curious blend of awe, irritation and amusement with which most Frenchmen today regard their President. Through endless anecdotes, his mordant wit and sovereign self-assurance...
...pigeonhole of a convenient tradition will have no difficulty in detecting the intellectual habits of the school of Donne in such poems as "The Value of Gold." To expand categories slightly, Mr. Gunn's whole milieu resembles that early-seventeenth-century world of religious nightmare, alchemical daydream, and academic short-circuit, in which an inherited logic grinned at itself and morbidity became bumptious. In one of the 1954 poems, "A Mirror for Poets," Mr. Gunn described that age, so obviously like our own as to make the comparison banal, as a "violent time" which demanded its right to be taken...
However, Freidel guessed that any move in the South would be a bid "to short-circuit the Presidential nominee rather than start a major political party. Southern Senators don't want to lose their Senatorial seniority," he explained...
...Democratic Movement (M.D.N.). A career army officer sent to Washington as Castillo Armas' ambassador, he is firmly in the U.S. camp. He has the support of the younger officers who carry most weight in the army, a strong point in his favor in case of opposition attempts to short-circuit a Cruz Salazar victory either before or after the fact. His slogan: "Neither left nor right...
Married to Part-time Painter Anne Barstow, has three children: David, 20, of the Coldstream Guards; Clarissa, 17, student at the Sorbonne; Antonia, 9. No stuffed shirt, he has an impressive reputation for ability to short-circuit gobbledygook, is a good mixer, relishes a chance to live in Washington, where he feels the steamy summer climate will be no great bother because, as he hears it: "You go from one air-conditioned room to another." Said he on his arrival: "If the prospects of peace and justice are to be good, it will depend on the extent" to which...