Word: tripe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commandant's term at an end, Cliff Gates served out his time as chief of the Marine Corps Schools at Quantico, Va. This week old (60) Leatherneck Gates, D.S.C., Navy Cross, D.S.M., Legion of Merit, Silver Star, was retired with a 17-gun salute and an elaborate ceremony. "Tripe," hard-boiled Cliff Gates called it, blinking down the mist in his eyes. The country needs toughening up, he said, and the Marine Corps needs "tough fighters." After all, "that's what...
Tired of "all the Arthurian tripe about the Holy Grail," Novelist Costain has written his own version of what happened to the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper. His hero is Basil of Antioch, a low-born artisan hired by Joseph of Arimathea to fashion a silver casing to hold the homely original. While young Basil is still wrestling with clay models, he also begins a long wrestle with sacred and profane love in the persons of 1) Deborra, the rich Christian girl he marries, and 2) Helena, a toothsome pagan baggage who has bewitched him with...
...first-name outfit." The English writers were always ready for a 20-minute chat on any subject, from the sad state of African groundnuts to the poor taste of American movies. Said he: "They speak with such conviction, fluency and lucidity, even when they are talking absolute tripe...
...owner-with a reasonable background of education-I have seen my first opera, my first ballet, a President, the U.N., and some of the best, tightest-packed hours of drama-all for free. Certainly there's a lot of tripe, too. So were some of the courses I took in college ... In my home, I, like anyone else, can always turn the little switch...
...issue pusillanimous and preposterous puns and they 'credit' nitwit observations on international affairs to hams who don't know Europe is across the Atlantic. They have studios 'negotiating' deals for their employers which could never eventuate. Why they think I will believe such palpable tripe, let alone pass it on to millions, I can't fathom. I must be rated a pushover, hard up to fill space...