Word: swiping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difference between a working liberal and a talking liberal . . . I for one have no time for the Johnny-come-lately, well-fed liberals who would like to have a disproportionate voice in the party. I think you know who they are." He made it clear, in a passing swipe, that he was sore at the once-devoted New York Post, which had recently taken some potshots at him. But beyond that, nobody was quite certain whom he had in mind; he could have meant Stevenson, whose passive third-time availability galls him, or he could even have meant Eleanor Roosevelt...
...creates it through simple brutality. His command is a native Mule Company of blacks, whom he keeps in line with regular floggings. In all the district his word is law, and since he is close to seven feet tall and can break a man's jaw with a swipe of his fist, he never gets any back talk. Others may want to leave Belele for a more civilized post, but not de Goltz. Half Dutch, half native, he knows that he has reached his peak, and glories in the power to flog, execute, ride herd on his three young...
Replied Reuther: "The company has refused to bargain, to arbitrate, to mediate. The company will get nowhere by the continuation of their nonsense." Then he took a swipe at the automaker's profits: "They have been fleecing the public...
...reporter was right on top of the news. Just a long swipe away was the four-year-old female bear he planned to wrestle for his story. Holding the bear's halter, 29-year-old Matti Jämsä last week got his news source to nibble some sugar from his palm. But when Jämsä lunged forward to wrestle, the startled bear fouled him by clawing two gashes from the corner of his right eye down his cheek. Blinded by blood, Jämsä was led from the ring a beaten man. Said...
...color is a ruddy red, and the language is expectedly lively: HE (with a disdainful swipe at the brow): "I will return to the past, to the scenes of my childhood." SHE (inspecting her fingernails): "Well, I'm sorry I'm not your rocking horse...