Word: snappishness
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...Judge Medina has had a hard time finding out exactly what the trustbusters' case is. Red-faced and quizzical, he has upbraided the Justice Department's lawyers time & again for "shilly-shallying," "going backwards," confusing the issues and wasting the court's time. Alternately benign and snappish with both sides, he has described his job, which keeps him working twelve hours a day even on Weekends, as "heartbreaking." Once, when a defense lawyer referred to some testimony introduced on "March 17," Medina wearily asked: "Which year...
...globe-trotting Australian who has written caustic novels about failures in Sydney, high finance in Europe, black marketeers in Manhattan. The critics have generally praised her books, but the paying public has held back. Her new novel seems likely to get the same sort of reception. A snappish inquiry into the ways of men and dogs, it will appeal to those who take their reading extra-dry, their wit offbeat, their people eccentric...
Just such snappish judgments by big-shot Americans . . . make the U.S. suspect or unpopular even among our most traditional and needed friends...
...Tobey was looked after by two servants. Newsmen dubbed Tobey "the richest dog in the world." But, while Miss Wendel left an estate of $40 million, her will made no mention of Tobey. Two years later, the executors of the estate decided that Tobey, having reached a sickly and snappish nine years, should end his life painlessly at the veterinarian...
...touchy mood (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), tartly remarked that one news service at least had been something less than objective in its coverage of the Truman-MacArthur meeting on Wake Island. What galled the President was Smith's dispatches on the way to Wake describing Harry Truman as unusually snappish...