Word: tutting
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...eyes, might reduce the have-not countries to permanent pawns of the nuclear-possessing nations and send Russian agents scurrying across Germany prying into even the most peaceful uses of atomic energy. Moreover, Britain's effusive welcome for Kosygin, and the fact that his hosts uttered hardly a tut-tut in remonstrance after he publicly attacked West Germany, confirmed in many Germans the belief that Britain remains perhaps the most anti-German country in Western Europe. As far as the Germans are concerned right now, there is something to De Gaulle's belief that the British...
...Ketterer Gallerie, two spacious floors have been jammed for the past six weeks with crowds of visitors who nearly block the view of Janssen's 234 watercolors, woodcuts, lithographs, etchings and drawings. Gallery habitues come to admire the skill of Janssen's work, staid burghers come to tut at his subjects, teen-agers to titter over them, students to analyze their social significance, and connoisseurs...
...there is surefire hilarity when British characters natter away with upper-class accents on low-class subjects. Not so. This story, about a group of lecherous London husbands who organize the scholarly sounding Metropolitan Egyptological Society as a cover for some amorous prowling, is about as funny as King Tut's tomb. And just as lively...
...into their pocketbooks or pinned them onto their hats. Tipsy men wantonly ripped signs from buildings, kicked over trash baskets, waded in the Unisphere fountain, and shinned up the 20-ft. poles near the United Nations Plaza to capture the flags. One man completely gutted a statue of King Tut near the Egyptian Pavilion, another attacked a copy of an ancient vase outside the Greek Pavilion with a hammer, while hundreds of people watched in silence. Everything from saltcellars to cameras was stolen as souvenirs...
...Russian slogans on the walls of Sofia, particularly an inscription reading "Za Levski"-a reference to Nationalist Leader Vasil Levski, hanged by Bulgaria's Turkish overlords in 1873. It would seem that Bulgaria, like the rest of Eastern Europe, has been infected with nascent nationalism. As one official tut-tutted last week in explanation of the upheaval: "There are black sheep in every flock...