Word: utterance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done in self-defense would wash off the wrong." Brazil's President João Goulart protested "against all forms of international coercion, including the threatened atomic destruction of humanity." Malaya's Prime Minister Abdul Rahman called the Soviet tests "deplorable," said that they showed "utter contempt and disregard for world opinion...
...hard-thinking realists have not forgotten the lessons of history. Senator Dodd of Connecticut observed after the Soviet resumption of testing that the action proved the utter fatuity of the American moratorium. Moreover, it confirmed that Russia had been conducting tests underground all along. Although Mr. Rockefeller has not attained an equal mastery of the logic of Realpolitik, he is surely nobody's fool...
What's worse, the Gallery's insurgent director, a total newcomer from, God forbid, Reed College, obviously cloisters the most evil of all intentions within his crafty mind. No one could doubt that he is dedicated to the utter humiliation of the Club. For he is embarking upon an experiment which is altogether too daring, too wild, too foolish, to merit the least glimmer of hope for success--he is exhibiting representational, objective...
...writing, anyway. It is hardly difficult to quote silly news articles at length, and get laughs out of them; after 100 pages, though, this gets pretty damn boring. And when Liebling inserts a few words of his own between the great gobs of reprints, his tone is one of utter pomposity, of the man who has been everywhere, read everything, and done all there is to do. His presumed knowledge of every situation that arises is nothing if not infuriating...
Tanganyika's sympathies lie with the West. I had lunch with a TANU official, and to my utter disbelief heard him defend to me the American intervention in Cuba which I had just condemned...