Word: unkindest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bill Lee, resident flake and longtime starting pitcher (94 wins, 68 losses), and picked up four minor players who can, at best, be counted on as utility men. Meanwhile, the Yankees, true to then-big-spending ways, obtained two more front-line pitchers: the Dodgers' Tommy John and, unkindest cut of all, Boston's Luis Tiant. Ageless and irrepressible, Tiant was a favorite of Boston fans and a stopper for crucial games; typically, it was Tiant who threw the shut-out that tied the Yanks on the last day of the season. More important, he was the heart...
...Viviane Ch. Greymour. "But I didn't congratulate him on this collection! It's folklore, a show, theater, dreams." Another complaint-as if buyers of haute couture rode the subway -was that Yves' cloaks and skirts are "too wide to pass through the Metro turnstiles." The unkindest cut came from a jury voting during the week of the showing for the new Golden Thimble award-haute couture's would-be Oscar: it gave the honor to the classic Mme. Gres (runner-up: Emanuel Ungaro), without even mentioning Saint Laurent...
Safire's unkindest cuts are saved for Henry Kissinger. He charges that Kissinger first had his own telephone bugged and afterward lied about it. Safire also flatly asserts that Kissinger deviously recorded telephone conversations with newsmen-sometimes belittling his long-suffering foreign affairs adversary, Secretary of State William Rogers-then deliberately altered the transcripts and sent them to Haldeman to portray the resulting stories as wrong...
Henry Kissinger wants to link future negotiations about the U.S. military presence in Europe to trade concessions. But in the current atmosphere of waning confidence, Europeans are increasingly resisting, suspicious and overly sensitive to the slightest nudging by Washington. TIME Correspondent David Tinnin reports that Kissinger's unkindest critics have already begun to claim that he is determined to keep Western Europe "in line" in much the same highhanded way that Brezhnev keeps his despotic hold on the East. Though this is clearly exaggerated, it nonetheless represents a foreboding element in Europe's new view of Washington...
...Marxist-oriented I.R.A. Official branch offered the unkindest rebuttal of all. When a Communist-backed revolt broke out in Sudan last year, one official remembered, Gaddafi captured some rebels as they passed through Libya and handed them over to Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry for execution. That, said the I.R.A., hardly qualified him as a fellow revolutionary...