Word: utterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mamie continued to resist the blandishments of social Washington, stayed mostly at home (their only outing: a preview of a film on the life of Mahatma Gandhi), but during the week the President asked some more Congressmen to lunch. To their utter surprise, House Democrats were included in the guest list, and the White House announced that eventually every Democrat as well as every Republican in Congress (and Maverick Wayne Morse too) would be invited to one of the frequent luncheons...
Duggan himself, like Felix a man in a niche (he is the expert on armor for the British Natural History Museum), is not one to discuss politics as such. But 15 centuries from home, he can utter a refined razzberry at some noteworthy blunderers of the past...
...Moslem world grew weaker, fanatics called louder & louder for jihad, but met less & less response. When the degenerate Turkish Sultan-Caliph proclaimed a jihad against the Allies in 1914, it was cynically dubbed the "Holy War Made in Berlin." It was the last real jihad and an utter failure...
...holding up his left hand, contributed little that was either sinister or helpful. Jerry Anastasio, one of the notorious brothers, spent 14 minutes on the stand. He sucked his tongue, picked his nose, blew into his hands, spat into his handkerchief and belched-but the only words he would utter were his name...
Ivory Towering Rage. In London, while participating in a television round-table discussion on rent controls, Oxford Don A. J. P. Taylor got so angry that he turned his back on the cameras, refused to utter a word for the rest of the program...