Word: unkindnesses
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...tell Gertie to mind her manners and that if she wants another play from me she can fish for it." Yet when she dies a year or so later, he breaks down: "With all her overactings and silliness I have never known her to do a mean or an unkind thing. I am terribly, terribly unhappy to think that I shall never see her again...
...real world, his successes make only slight progress on the true problems." In foreign affairs, the globetrotting Kraft finds Washington "lagging behind events . . . Ronald Reagan came to the presidency with only a smattering of general, often incompatible, ideas about foreign policy." The Administration is now subjected to "unkind cuts from friends all over the world"-from West Germany, Israel, Saudi Arabia and China. "First Washington needs to work out a concerted course of action for dealing with its worldwide problems." But for the time being, Kraft lamely concludes: "When friends turn nasty, a good way to show how much this...
...refers to his habit of sharing digs with young men as "chumming." In the biographer's view, however, being a prey to lusts that could have landed him in jail helped make Munro an outsider. Early on the aunts taught him to hate people like themselves, who were unkind to animals and children, and to see lying and imagination as the only power the weak and clever have over the strong and dull. Many of his best stories, The Penance, for instance, and The Lumber-Room, turn on the triumph of children over adults. In Sredni Vashtar, the most...
...Administration or Congress, which also has the power to cut off weapons deliveries, would go that far. Indeed, many members of Congress expressed envy and admiration for Israel's military boldness and execution. "We could have used them at Desert One," said a Republican Senator in an unkind reference to the abortive attempt to rescue the American hostages from Tehran. Quipped another Senator: "At least we know our planes work." Maryland Senator Charles Mathias may have expressed a dominant congressional view when he said, "I have no illusions that the Saudis or Sadat or anyone else is weeping crocodile...
...Coach McCurdy was the unsung hero in this meet," exclaimed Galagher, though many spectators argue they did hear McCurdy singing, and some were unkind enough to doubt whether it was heroic...