Word: utterable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon was serving his country when he brought out evidence against Hiss. It is contemptible to permit someone like Hiss, who was serving another country against all of our interests, to utter his thoughts about our former public servant...
...things. Landuyt's great achievement is the suspense he manages to generate, as if each of his oozing, pulsating interiors were about to pop. This is the magic he is after-to catch the seed just as it is about to burst into life, "the supreme moment of utter standstill and containment before the eruption of form...
...tiny injustices imposed by the white world (Griffin is forever having to walk long blocks just to urinate); and of the bigger injustices that are perpetually evident in the white man's "hate stares," his constant use of the word "boy" while talking at all Negroes, his utter unwillingness to show them the tiniest human courtesy...
...duty in Kashmir when the Chinese broke through the light defenses on the Himalayan border. He kept baiting the West as enthusiastically as he praised the Soviet Union, sure, as was Nehru, that if his Red Chinese friends should ever become troublesome, Moscow would keep them in line. The utter bankruptcy of this policy was demonstrated last week when ten Indian Air Force pilots returned emptyhanded from Russia, where they had been sent to take delivery on long-promised MIG-21 jet fighters. In the showdown, Russia stayed loyal to its alliance with Red China, leaving India to shift...
...they can't do anything except sound like geese they ought to leave. They hiss again, and stay. The rest of the audience applauds, and stays too. "This situation did not arise last Tuesday; the moment was deliberately chosen," Moore declares. "All this rallying behind the President is the utter abdication of democracy." Thunderous applause. His manner is calm, almost hesitant, highly academic...