Word: twits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mending, he sometimes sulks like a put-upon housewife. Charlie is the male partner, as it were, and with a certain oafish, masculine crudity he does things like cut his toenails in bed. But his basic role is to nag at Harry and call him (her) a "twit." Be it ever so hurtful, there is no place like home, and in its pathetic way the Charlie-Harry relationship is a bad marriage that works. The law threatens to sever it. Charlie has been apprehended doing a transvestite turn in a gay club, and must appear in court. Like gentle, trapped...
...million Swiss bid included $4 million in import duties, said the TVA, it was more than $10 million under any other. No less enthusiastic, American Electric President Donald C. Cook cheered the arrival of a "third manufacturer" in the U.S. market, and went out of his way to twit the American producers. "They should welcome this," he said, "because they are both strong believers in American competition...
...late Queen Louise lovingly used to twit the King about his digging enthusiasms. Once, while the royal limousine was inching along a torn-up street in Stockholm, she asked him: "Gusti, have you been busy here lately?" But she was equally proud of his accomplishments, used to remark: "I didn't marry a King. I married a professor." And very like a professor the King still acts, always carrying a pocket magnifying glass and often remarking that if Sweden ever got rid of his crown, he could always go to work in a museum...
...Britain as pro-American ("a US-symp" as one Labor critic says), his support for this country has never been unconditional. He pressed Kennedy to sign the Test Ban Treaty and advised the President bluntly that the CIA and State Department were handling Laos idiotically. He still loves to twit the State Department for its bureaucratic stodginess and lack of imagination. Harlech is no sycophant. But he seems to realize that his charm and intelligence allow him to cajole and convert effectively from the inside. Moreover, Harlech has a strong sense of Britain's dependence on America and thinks resentment...
...genial, scrubbed crowd of 350 heard four professors' twit Senator Barry Goldwater and praise President Johnson in Sanders Theatre Saturday night...