Word: smarm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian note was not above a little smarm. In a slam at Chinese militance, it had clucked at "such a disparaging approach to the life of millions of people, to the fate of entire nations." After such words, it was little wonder that the Chinese stayed away from Moscow this week when the Congress opened...
...Egan, Adolphe Menjou. Karl Malden, Agnes Moorehead. Donald Crisp, Nancy Olson), and generally calculated its gasps and sniffles, homilies and heehaws with such shrewdness that Pollyanna emerges on the wide screen as the best live-actor movie Disney has ever made: a Niagara of drivel and a masterpiece of smarm...