Word: snidely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy's attempt to fudge on the specifies of his proposals, and his ability to inspire confidence with soft-spoken wit and snide commentary on other candidates illuminate his psychological strategy. This tack, of course, has the drawback of alienating many black voters. It also confirms the suspicion that McCarthy has too much arrogant cynicism to be an active, imaginative President...
...months, I have been defending the CRIMSON against snide allegations of sloppy reporting. But what am I now to think--when you pin on an innocent goalie the awful responsibility of having let in the only goal scored against Harvard in its 18-1 defeat of the M.I.T. lacrosse team? I'll have you know that my son hasn't had a goal scored against him this year. E.J. Kahn...
Required by the city government to attend, some Houston police grumbled, read paperbacks or worked crossword puzzles during initial sessions. At the time, Police Chief Herman Short, a tough traditionalist, helped little with snide remarks about "slobbering sociologists." But as the meetings progressed, he apologized for the slur, and even uncooperative officers began venting their feelings. At one meeting a veteran police sergeant blurted, "I've hated niggers all my life, and every time I see a car with a Texas Southern University* sticker on it I'm going to harass the hell out of that driver...
...Harold Macmillan, saying he didn't understand the fuss about Profumo's private life, since there were 'adulterers on the Opposition front bench.' That was the closest anyone has come in public to making an extraprofessional link between Mrs. Williams and her boss, though the snide cracks have been going around again lately...
...Grab a lock of", then the Beatles have created a nonsense in the spirit of Lewis Carroll, one that (intentionally) sounds like the first phrase. 12) i.e. panties. 13) mumbled in the background. 13a) cross between "textbook" and preceding word. 14) hippies with pot. 15) i.e. they're snide. 16) an awful English pudding. 17) literally a fish dish of the same grade as semolina pudding; more likely is an abomination of "filcher", meaning in this context a hippie so degraded that he has to steal, violating the hippie ethics. 18) to jump? 19) the Penguin textbook editions; here means...