Word: unkindest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, the Sunday Dispatch (circ. 2,420,000) canceled its new, highly touted contract for a weekly column by Muggeridge. The BBC scheduled, then canceled, several TV shows on which Muggeridge might have had a chance to answer his critics. Last week, in the unkindest cut of all, the BBC announced that it "does not wish to renew Mr. Muggeridge's contract" for 26 TV appearances a year. Protested London's Daily Mirror: "If all views must agree with the BBC (Better Be Careful) censors, nothing worthwhile will ever be said." To Newsman...
...soft rural-type intonation" rather than the Negro dialect in Connelly's Pulitzer Prizewinning script. Nobody will wear a derby. Cain still slays Abel, but morals are tightened up all through Genesis, e.g., instead of getting high on his keg of whisky, Noah just gets rosy. Perhaps the unkindest cut will fall on those who especially relished a Babylon that looked like a New Orleans nightclub or a celestial throne that resembled a Negro lawyer's office in a Louisiana town. Said the spokesman: "There has been special emphasis in the physical production to point up the timelessness...
...Verwoerd the unkindest cut of all was from his own Nederduits Gere formmeerde Kerk (Afrikaans for Dutch Reformed Church), which has always taken the pro-Afrikaner view in all his disputes. It said that it could not support the "width of impact of the church clause." At the church's Stellenbosch Seminary, Theology Professor B. B. Keet, a blunt Afrikaner, spelled out what may prove the turn of the tide in South Africa's official segregation policy. "It will be suicidal," said Keet, "for the white group in South Africa to continue to try to apply the impractical...
...businessmen who had come hopefully to Cambodia after the debacle of Hanoi were leaving. In the Mekong River valley 6,000 peasants, terrified by pirates, put their cooking pots on their backs and, driving their water buffaloes before them, moved toward South Viet Nam. For Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the unkindest cut of all was the charge of "corruption in government" by the progressive opposition, and the cry for a Cambodian Republic. Said Sihanouk, with an accent of surprise: "The opposition is planning to discredit the indispensable monarchy. Because of my foolish dreams, things are going the wrong...
...have a valet to tie your tie, which regrettably many people don't, then you should tie it up yourself.'' Of the hang of the long trousers: "The wrong sort of braces . . . assuming he would wear nothing so inexcusable as a belt." Tailor reserved its unkindest cut of all, however, for the brown suit that the burly Shepilov wore on his arrival in London: "All right, perhaps, for grouse shooting, but as Lord Curzon once said, 'No gentleman wears brown...