Word: stabbingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delhi's Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament), where one opposition critic has accused Nehru and Menon of ordering India's border guards not to fire on the Chinese invaders. When, at last, Menon was forced to acknowledge the extent of the Chinese aggressions ("a stab in the back"), he nevertheless continued to pussyfoot when it came to finding a way of forcing the Chinese to "vacate their aggression." Explains Nehru, ever fearful of a war he might not win: "You have to think of the next step...
...Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to opt out of the competition. His announced reason: disgust with the lobbying and self-promotion increasingly expected of Oscar seek ers. Said Scott: "I take the position that actors shouldn't be forced to out-advertise and out-stab each other." - A literary lode of remarkable proportions was brought to Manhattan by Mary Welsh Hemingway, whose pursuit of the unpublished works of her late husband Ernest took her from a Havana bank vault to the back room at Sloppy Joe's saloon in Key West. She collected a possible four...
...Harvard students are never at a loss. If they don't know something, they'll take a stab at it, drawing upon all their plentiful resources of study and experience...
...China is plainly working to put India into the jaws of a giant Himalayan nutcracker. Recently China concluded a road-building treaty with Nepal, is offering economic aid to the Himalayan kingdoms of Sikkim and Bhutan. The significance of the Chinese pincers movement finally occurred even to Menon. "A stab in the back," he com plained last month. "When did you realize this?" gibed Election Rival J. B. Kripalani in Parliament. "The day before yesterday?" But Menon still urged caution against "adventurism," said that the Chinese Communists should withdraw from Indian territory "in the interests of peace and socialism...
...Kenya's black nationalist movement, moon-faced Tom Mboya, 31, has taken two wives, both of them in the simple tribal custom that permits any marriage to be dissolved whenever the partners decide to separate. Neither union worked, but last week he announced that he would take another stab at matrimony. This time the marriage would take place on a more permanent basis-in the Roman Catholic Church, to which Mboya has belonged ever since his childhood days in Catholic mission schools...