Word: snappish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...talk about it he did, in snappish tones edged with determination. Asked about the reasons for his party's defeat, he pointed to two failures: the G.O.P.'s failure to get its campaign rolling soon enough (he referred to Republicans as "they"), and the voters' failure to understand the dangers of excessive federal spending. He had warned about the "spender-wing" of the Democratic Party in his campaign speeches, he said, but "apparently that didn't make any great impression" on the voters. "I don't know whether they did this thing deliberately," he went...
...year would "constitute a bridge of platitudes sufficient to reach from the Herald Tribune's editorial rooms to the cold caverns of the moon." But to approving readers of her three-a-week column of political analysis, "On the Record" (147 papers), durable Dorothy Thompson was a snappish combination of Cassandra and Joan of Arc, the first and finest of political newshens...
...steelworkers in a snowstorm outside the Capitol. Before his subcommittee paraded big-name witnesses, ranging from the Rockefeller Report's Nelson Rockefeller ("Unless present trends are reversed, the world balance of power will shift in favor of the Soviet bloc") to the Navy's snappish, hard-driving Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear submarine ("I think everybody in the military should be doing things as if we were really...
...more just part of a memorable tribe. There is the well-meaning, property-loving, family-exploiting, sympathy-maneuvering mother. There is the lusty ruin of a father, with a heroic gift for drink and denunciation, and a sense of values for all his violences. There is Eugene's snappish, put-upon sister; there is his protective brother Ben, who, as in the novel, is more notable dying than when alive. The Gants' tumultuous strifes and set-tos constantly startle and sometimes even rout the genteel, almost ghostly boarders...
Tearing the Heart. No one realizes this better than Candidate Stevenson. Touring Pennsylvania last week, Stevenson drew good crowds but appeared weary and snappish (mourned friendly N.Y. Postman Murray Kempton: "It almost tears the heart to see Stevenson"). Although Adlai had been assured of Pennsylvania's 74 convention votes by Governor George Leader and Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence, Stevenson remarked: "I can't be sure, of course, that I will retain their allegiance until next August." Estes Kefauver was in no better shape; his improved Gallup poll rating after the Minnesota primary could be expected...