Word: unpleasanter
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Banal's voice droned on like a chorus of cicadas on a hot day until finally there was a statement I couldn't ignore. "Monique, I want you to meet my grandfather, Anatole. My rich grandfather.'' A slight, stooped man came toward me. He was no...
As he rose wearily from his teakwood parliamentary bench one morning last week, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru found himself in an unusual and unpleasant position. For the first time in years, the relative handful of Indian M.P.s who oppose Nehru were in a position to attack him...
"Quite an Achievement." The most dispiriting thing about U.N. debates is not their occasional descent into abuse, or their relentless prolixity. It is the fact that, with rare exceptions. U.N. debates are conducted in a vacuum-and when they result in "decisions." no one who finds those decisions unpleasant feels...
"History alone," Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan told the House of Commons last week, "will prove whether what we did was right or wrong," and, he added, "I believe that history will show that we have chosen aright." But as keeper of the national purse strings...
Tuesday at midday, eight days after the Middle East war began, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announced that Britain and France had agreed to a ceasefire. The gunfire might cease, but the unpleasant aftermath would be with the world for a long time.