Word: twits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Novelist Powers is anything but anticlerical, but in his sly, fond way he can twit the clerics sharply. He has a fine eye for the kind of Catholic foible that makes other Catholics wince. The founder of the Clementine order, for instance, was the (imaginary) martyr St. Clement, who was pressed to death between millstones. Naturally, given the Catholic fondness for sanguinary names, the order's publishing house is called the Millstone Press. The dear, droll priest has cluttered up magazines (Father Juniper) and movie houses (Bing and Barry) for years. The work of J. F. Powers...
...time past, Nikita had kept his soldiers out of the diplomatic limelight, had even been prone to twit them in public. Only a fortnight ago, while boasting of the Soviet army's current troop cuts at a diplomatic reception, Nikita gibed: "One of our generals over there just scratched his head. Another reduction!" But last week, as he ranted through the most clamorous diplomatic debacle of modern times, Nikita thrust Russia's top soldier into the public eye at every opportunity...
...Moscow Airport things got off to a bumpy start. Turning to Italian Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella, whom the Russians regard as "hopelessly" pro-Western, Nikita Khrushchev began to twit him on the Alitalia DC-6B in which the Gronchi party had arrived. Said Khrushchev: "Since you buy your airplanes abroad, you should know that ours go much faster. Why don't you buy airplanes that are faster and perhaps cheaper?" Taken aback, Pella began to argue that Russian jets actually cost more than the U.S.-made DC-6B (an obsolescent type on U.S. airlines). Khrushchev dismissed the point with...