Word: snappish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Former Iowa Senator Dick Clark, an ambassador-at-large for refugee matters in the State Department, whom Carter had just designated as head of the new Cambodian relief effort, resigned last week to join the Kennedy campaign. Carter accepted the resignation with a snappish note. Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne told Carter three weeks ago that she would support him, according to John White, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, but last week she announced her pledge to Kennedy. This gives the Massachusetts Senator an important advantage in the critical Illinois primary next March. Morris Dees, Carter's chief fund...
...cartel's oil has jumped from $2.41 per bbl. to $14.55, an incredible $550 billion has cascaded into OPEC coffers. The cartel's leaders, many of whom head backward and unstable regimes, have been propelled to the forefront of world economic, financial and strategic affairs. Variously smooth and snappish, OPEC'S chiefs contend that they are merely embellishing the rules of the game as taught by the oil majors. From the moment that John D. Rockefeller organized the infant U.S. petroleum industry into a producers' cartel to maintain stable and profitable prices, companies have employed one device after another...
...weakness of Proxmire's case was one reason for Miller's confirmation, another was Miller's own coolness under fire. On the eve of his final appearance before the committee, the usually jovial Textron chief turned uncharacteristically snappish with his aides and prepared a 50-page statement in his defense. Once on the stand, however, he found no need to quote from it; his impromptu answers to Proxmire's queries were enough. When Proxmire opened by saying that to him "the facts ring loud and clear; Textron bribed Khatemi," Miller responded that the Senator was making...
...pleas of his staff, Carter refused to retreat at first-thus giving a rare public demonstration of his obsti-nancy under pressure. Asked why he, a man who is generally precise and subtle in his use of language, persisted in using words that offended so many people, Carter became snappish. "You know what 'alien' means," he said, "and it doesn't have the negative connotation you are trying to put on it." Reported TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, who has observed Carter closely for several months: "When he is angry, he can be very, very stubborn-very much...
...easy, bantering relationship with J.F.K. Once, sitting next to Kennedy at a horse show, the author remarked on how easy it would be for a marksman to assassinate the President. Vidal then added that he would probably be hit instead. "No great loss," Kennedy joked. But Vidal's snappish wit and lofty mien were not the virtues of a loyal flatterer. Robert Kennedy distrusted and disliked him. During a White House party, Bobby flared when Vidal laid a brotherly hand on Jackie. Insults were exchanged, and Gore was banished from the court. He later struck back in print with...