Word: snigger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Snigger delightedly...
...someone else were responsible for their bills. Wages wildly outstripped productivity. Unemployment was the highest in Western Europe; inflation raged at an 18% rate. Public debt zoomed moonward at a catastrophic speed, while the idea of restricting consumption to narrow an enormous deficit elicited a knowing snigger. By calling a snap election for this week, Cosgrave has replaced romance with realism. The country, he says, must stop "this rake's progress...
...largely academic audience at the Loeb, and Vaughan finds such an opportunity occasionally refreshing. "The demands of such an audience are high, which is good"; then he smiled: "Sometimes, however, they're a little pedantic. I can't get used to audiences who never laugh, but just snigger politely...