Word: snappishness
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Negotiators on both sides were getting snappish. "We are tired, beat and emotionally fed up," said one Israeli. "Kissinger has to keep up this absurd shuttle because those bastards don't want to talk to us. They seem frightened by the prospect of their own moderation-if it can be called moderation to take back land you lost in a war you started." Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, after a Knesset debate over his handling of the Palestinian attack on Ma'alot, stomped out of the Chamber, muttering audibly "I'm fed up with this government...
Some turn snappish. David North tells of one client, a former financial vice president he calls Tom, who got the ax because he began disagreeing too frequently with the president on how the business should be run. The president, who had been a close friend, referred Tom to North. At first Tom hesitated to accept any help. "Let's be realistic," North told him. "You got fired, and he [the president] is willing to pay for my program. Let the bastard pay." Tom agreed, but initially he objected to undergoing psychological testing. "I suppose you're going...
...Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the 27-year-old head of Libya's Revolutionary Command Council, celebrated the first six months of his military rule with a 31-hour press conference in Tripoli's old parliament building. In his first such appearance, Gaddafi was ill at ease, chauvinistic and snappish. When TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott asked under what conditions Libya might place the planes that it is purchasing from France at the service of Egypt, Gaddafi bristled. "The issue," he snapped, "is not the use by Egypt of these arms. Rather, it is the question of American sympathy for Israel...
Pollyanna Adams. Even Hubert Humphrey turned snappish. "You won't make this country better," he said, "by leading from fear, despair and doubt." If some "spilt-milk politicians," he added, in a speech prepared for a dairymen's convention in Kansas City, Mo., "would spend more time getting on with the job and less cussing out the cows-or crying crocodile tears about everything in general-we would all be better off." Indeed, if anything nettles Humphrey, it is Kennedy's implication that his "politics of joy" is frivolous and smug. "Hubert," said a sign...
PRESIDENT Pusey's appearance yesterday before the Student-Faculty Advisory Council ought to silence the snappish ad hominem attacks to which he is sometimes subjected...