Word: understatedness
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THE TRAIN WAS ON TIME, by Heinrich Böll (142 pp.; Criterion; $3), carries its Eastern-front German soldier-hero to his death while he is still on furlough in the Ukraine, which is about as ironically far as the you-can't-win theme has ever been...
Material for the Memos. Northcliffe understated the case. The Post's reach goes beyond Capitol Hill and far deeper than the Senate subway. From Foggy Bottom to the fog on the Hill, Washington reaches for the Post as Broadway reaches for Variety or bankers for the Wall Street Journal...
Prime Minister Anthony Eden said that in 33 years in Parliament Attlee had never made a personal enemy. Winston Churchill had once called him "a sheep in sheep's clothing." But the meek exterior could give way to a rasping, if understated, effectiveness, and he had learned the secret...
Someone read a telegram from President Pusey. The master of ceremonies finally stood up to introduce the guest of honor. "There isn't much that I 'can add to what has already been said," he understated. He gave White an engraved watch. White spoke quietly and modestly. He said that...
The bulk of the 142 Deputies elected were standard Arab politicians-old-line, conservative and opportunist, many of them also hostile to the West, and to the U.S. in particular for its past support of Israel. Against them, Bakdash and the Socialists could not hope to win much in Parliament...