Word: uppityness
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The real reason, observers suspected, was that Thurman Arnold acts with the President's tacit approval. When labor gets uppity, the President slips the leash, and Arnold cuts loose with many a bark & bay. When labor is getting plenty of lumps everywhere else, Mr. Roosevelt hauls Arnold back to...
>"The stage mgr of 'Johnny 2 x 4' is getting very uppity-puppity with the actors."
If enough should arrive in time, General Hutton might well cut across into Thailand after the Jap. But it was more easily said than done, even with a big force. Thailand and Burma have long been uppity neighbors. Their railroad and highway systems do not mesh, and the border country...
1) They were designed to intensify the blockade of Free China. Many goods of war and peace had found their way into Free China by way of this unoccupied strip of coast. Domei, the uppity Japanese news agency, said quite frankly that the move was intended to cut off U.S...
Coups d'état are familiar features of the Iraqi political landscape. Sportive, fast-driving, ham Radioperator King Ghazi I survived three. Since 1939 when Ghazi wrapped roadster and self around an electric-light pole, Iraq's ruler has been his son, King Feisal II, a sloe-eyed...