Word: unkindest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week other Democratic and Republican Senators joined in the attack. The unkindest cut came from a Republican, New York's Jacob Javits, who accused Nixon of continuing the "sterile and unsuccessful" policies of the Johnson Administration. "The old myths, the old self-delusions and the old phraseology recur again and again," Javits charged. He suggested that personnel changes have not gone deep enough because Ambassadors Ellsworth Bunker and Henry Cabot Lodge, General Creighton Abrams and others associated with Johnson's Viet Nam policies remain in key posts...
They ranged from the line about Mickey Mouse wearing a Spiro Agnew watch to the unkindest cut of all - that he was the only Greek since Achilles to make a heel a campaign issue...
...dubs Chitty Chitty Bang Bang because of the way it chug-chugs and a beautiful lady named Truly Scrumptious because of the way she mug-mugs. Cute romance is in the air, cute songs flood the sound track, and the children, pining for Truly (Sally Ann Howes), utter the unkindest cute of all: "If he kisses her, then they'll hafta get married...
Perhaps the unkindest cut of all, because of its unintentional but magnificent ambiguity, came from Leonard Hall, chairman of the Romney for President committee. "I think it finally comes down to an issue of credibility between Governor Romney and Secretary McNamara," he said. "And given that choice, I have no doubt whom the American people will support...
...team of songwriters during a 20-minute coffee break-to the top of the charts. Their second album, More of the Monkees, has now moved from 122nd to first place in its second week on the pop tree, establishing them as the bestselling group in pop music. The unkindest record cut of all may be their new single, I'm a Believer. It is currently No. 1 in England-where the Beatles started the whole business...