Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best lines of the whole affair. "Perhaps the fault is all mine for deluding myself with hopes of immortal love. I was building a little masterpiece. Then I fell in love with my masterpiece and I married her. I created Callas, and she repaid me with a stab in the back. She was a fat, clumsily dressed woman, a refugee, a gypsy when I met her. She had not a cent nor any prospect for a career. I had to rent her a room at a hotel and had to put up $700 so she could remain in Italy...
...disgruntled president of the Malayan Chinese Association, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, wrote a "secret" letter to the Tengku (which was soon leaked), demanding 40 seats. Answered the Prince angrily: "Your action in presenting me with an ultimatum at this late hour is really a stab in the back...
After the meeting, Annenberg called the charges "false and erroneous." He added that they were probably spread by members of a different faction of the HYRC, but that if he offered any countercharges "it would only be taking a stab in the dark...
...boarded vessels at various times thereafter: during the Civil War, in Prohibition days. In the South Atlantic a few months before Pearl Harbor, a party from the U.S. cruiser Omaha boarded and interned the German merchant raider Odenwald, which was masquerading under U.S. colors. The U.S. made a tentative stab at visit and search in 1954, when it asked Britain and other allies to permit U.S. Navy ships to seize any arms shipments bound for revolution-torn Guatemala. Britain's cold reply: "There is no general power of search on the high seas in peacetime." *Cable companies have...
...Time is the most valuable thing in life, and I don't want to waste it," he said once. Feeling a stab of pain on the eve of his latest mission to Europe (see The Administration), he told a close friend: "If it isn't cancer, then I feel the trip is too important to put off. If it is cancer, then any additional discomfort doesn't fundamentally matter anyway...