Word: snickers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...should leave here convinced that we're not going to leer and snicker about these rules any longer," said Gail E. Thain '64, president of Whitman Hall. "The circus atmosphere around the rules, plus the snide comments and over-dramatized conflict that accompanied the rules last Spring has made it impossible to enforce the rules...
...hard, but Britain's Peter Sellers is remarkably cunning about his funning: even when he's trying to get a laugh, he never really seems to be trying, so when he fails he never really seems to have failed. Which may explain why, in this 25-minute snicker at the usual British gumshoe flicker, a miss is as good as a smile...
Nkrumah's closest advisers are those who toady to him the most. Interior Minister Kwaku Boateng often throws himself on his knees in Nkrumah's presence and cries: "Osagyefo, you are my God." Other associates snicker at the Osagyefo legend, but exploit it to further their own ambition. Ghana's masses are openly skeptical of the Nkrumah cult. Hit in the pocketbook by prohibitive compulsory savings taxes and threatened with jail at every turn, they are in a rebellious frame of mind. Barricaded behind Bren guns in the presidential residence, Nkrumah is becoming increasingly aware...
David Landon's work is uneven, but promising. Debutante, the most successful of his four poems, contains fresh imagery, such as: "a snicker of knives, like ripped silk," and avoids mistakes like: "the golden barbers of his soul." The latter comes from a piece of Landon's entitled Letter He Would Send To His Sweetie If He Were Chinese...
...copy editor and public relations man, finally earned a B.A. degree in 1944 from the University of New Mexico, suggested that these critics were biased because they either went to liberal arts schools or never received college degrees.- To this, Chase's Rocky Mountain News replied with a snicker. Said the News: Rafferty's "own biography says he received a bachelor degree at the age of 42 from the fourth college he attended...