Word: swiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pugnacity, McCarthy hit both at Johnson and at critics of Johnson's Viet Nam policy who have refused to join McCarthy's cause, most notably Bobby Kennedy. To prove that it really wants peace, McCarthy said, the Administration should replace Secretary of State Dean Rusk. His swipe at Kennedy was more subtle and yet more cutting: "There seems to be a disposition to wait for a kind of latter-day salvation-like four years from...
...East European television, Hungary's news presentation carries virtually no film footage, nor even voice reports from foreign correspondents. The lead item usually updates what the satellite networks call America's "dirty aggressive war against the brave, peace-loving Vietnamese." And often there will be a swipe at "the revanchist Kiesinger-Strauss government in Bonn...
...sometimes." Clearly, he felt that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee contributed more than its due. With a passing reference to the fact that, historically, the committee's chairmen have "almost invariably found a great deal wrong with the Executive in the field of foreign policy," he took a swipe at the present chairman, J. William Fulbright, who had just pushed through resolutions urging Johnson to take the Viet Nam issue to the United Nations and demanding a greater voice for Congress in committing U.S. troops abroad. "The committee had a big day yesterday," said Johnson archly. "They reported...
...Britain, had better luck; he was never worshiped and he died in bed. The young Nicky was fond of uniforms and noisy parades, generous with sapphire bracelets for a ballerina in St. Petersburg. There was nothing to warn him of the gruesome shape of things to come but a swipe on the scalp by a sword-swinging Japanese madman at the end of a leisurely grand tour. Alicky was Princess Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt, favorite granddaughter of Queen Victoria-the matchmaking old matriarch of half the reigning families of Europe...
...taking a good swipe at every available special interest group, MacBird avoids agitprop and falls somewhat heavily into the category of the Interesting. All hysterical remarks about the play's political truth aside, the best that can be said for it is that it provides a vaguely satisfying hour's reading; the worst, that it leaves the reader with a swelling sense of self-satisfaction. After...