Word: uglier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Touring London's suburbs at week's end, Eden ran into uglier heckling. "You're a traitor to Britain by giving arms to the Germans," a hoarse voice called out. and trailed off into an accusation that Eden and the Conservatives had sat back on chairs while Britons died in the war. Eden reddened and flared, "I lost two brothers in the first war and my son in the last one." The heckler howled: "You're a scoundrel!" Eden rejoined: "I am quite willing to be called a scoundrel, but I won't let anybody...
Dumas wrote day and night, working with and without collaborators, laughing as the wonderful pages of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte-Cristo rolled off. In a suburban castle even bigger and uglier than Scott's Abbotsford, surrounded by his menagerie and mistresses, he gave ducal parties (he often did the cooking) and spent money as fast as he made it. When Napoleon III pulled his 1851 coup and restored the Empire, Dumas fled to Belgium with Victor Hugo and other republicans. "The difference," says Maurois, "was that Hugo was fleeing before a tyrant, Dumas before...
...steady diet of this . . . will destroy us." Meanwhile, Tennessee's Ray Jenkins, special committee counsel at the long-winded hearings, discovered that he had popped up as Y. Y. Cragnose, a bumpy-beaked character in Cartoonist Al Capp's Li'l Abner. "Cragnose is uglier than I am," rasped Jenkins. "But I've been getting plenty of fan mail ... I do wish he'd refine that face...
...have fought-and died -in the nation's wars (and Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave, was the first to fall in the Boston Massacre of 1770, prelude to the American Revolution). Yet always the verdict was the same: in combat, Negro units were "unreliable"-a euphemism for an uglier word. Even in the Korean war-nearly three years after President Truman's 1948 order for armed-forces equality-the classic story was of Negroes who fled from battle, then huddled around a campfire singing The Bug Out Boogie, the "official song of the [Negro] 24th Infantry Regiment...
...desperately attempting to block an armistice, Syngman Rhee had just about used up all the arguments he knew. Last week South Korea's stubborn old man used an uglier and more dangerous tool...