Word: sorest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sorest Point. Listening to his speech, political pundits concluded that Eden had decided the Bevan brand of anti-Americanism had become politically popular. He went out of his way to pay "my personal tribute" to Molotov, welcomed the "opportunity to meet Chou En-lai," praised France's Bidault and Mendes-France, and even had a word of praise for the U.S.'s Bedell Smith. But he pointedly had no word for Secretary of State Dulles. He pressed hard on the sorest point in the touchy U.S.-British relationship: the recognition of Red China. "There is no doubt that...
...tenderest, sorest spot in the Eisenhower legislative program is the Administration's proposal for a short, one-year extension of the reciprocal-trade act. A year ago the White House settled for a one-year extension on the excuse that it needed time for more study of the problems of freer trade. Last fall the Randall Commission on Foreign Economic Policy began studying, came up with a program that President Eisenhower called a "minimum." It included a modest recommendation for a three-year extension of the reciprocal-trade act. Now, faced with opposition from the G.O.P. high-tariff bloc...
...rules with a vengeance, writing in a rich, sometimes overripe style ("My stylistic father is Horizon, my mother Vogue"). "With men who know rococo best," says one of his more cynical American admirers, "it's Tynan two to one." He has an unerring eye for the sorest point, whether it be an actress' weight or her unpleasing hands. After seeing Britain's venerated Dame Edith Evans play Shakespeare's Cleopatra, he wrote: "Bereft of fan, lace and sedan chair, Dame Edith is nakedly middle-aged and plain...
...behalf of the 8,000,000 Bantu who do not (possibly cannot) read quality magazines, I would like to shout bayete! bayete! to TIME, Sept. 3 for putting its blunt finger on Johannesburg, South Africa's sorest spot...