Word: snappish
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...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...
...solid citizens of Victoria, B.C., Emily Carr was a painful puzzle. Born into a conservative Victoria family (in 1871) she was dreamy and snappish from the start...
...advisers and have lunch. After lunch they went at it again. At 4:45 p.m., they had an agreement ready to sign, and Steelman came in to witness the signing. Then the trio went to Harry Truman's office. The President listened, called for the press. Like a snappish schoolteacher, he dictated: "Mr. Murray and Mr. Fairless have just advised me that six major steel companies and the United Steelworkers of America (C.I.O.) have reached agreement . . ." The steel strike was over...