Word: smug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scout or not, Davis had a genius for the self-advertising gesture. What's more, he was smug-a stuffed shirt, loaded with medals, who found far too many opportunities to deplore the young women who gushed over poor, handsome him. "I am," he concluded comfortably, "too attractive...
...There is popular worry at home over the need for a better atmosphere between Germany and its friends and the usual opposition to spending money on practically anything. Von Brentano's meeting with Kennedy, like Adenauer's talks with De Gaulle costs nothing and can be presented to a smug electorate as a diplomatic merit badge: personal diplomacy is cheap...
...spending his nights writing "750 pages of the world's worst trilogy," he quit his last odd job-Western Union messenger-three years ago to become a playwright. His first effort, The Zoo Story, an affecting work about the failure of communication between a lonely outcast and a smug square, had its première in Berlin, where it was hailed as "the Götterdämmerung of the gutter." Albee has since turned out four more one-act works, is currently working up from one-acters toward full-length drama by writing a two-act play that...
...Orleans once again shows the nation (and the all to smug North) how dirty America's house really is. The situation should teach the President-elect the truth of what he has said: that the moral force of the Presidency must be enlisted behind the law as expressed in the Supreme Court decisions on desegregation. But what is most remarkable about New Orleans is how faintly the American message, which so many try to hard to export, has been heard at home...
...local initiative" and the bogeymen of "socialized medicine" and "Federal control of education." He points with pride to statistics showing Republican accomplishments in, for instance, school and hospital construction, but accomplishments are meaningless except in relation to needs, and the needs have not been met, despite Mr. Nixon's smug assurances to the contrary...