Word: utters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time when restraint and sacrifice are being asked of every citizen, the American people will find it hard, as I do. to accept a situation in which a tiny handful of Steel executives whose pursuit of private power and profit exceeds their sense of public responsibility can show such utter contempt for the interest of 185 million Americans...
...attack by Cambridge Don Leavis has been topic A in London literary circles for weeks. According to Leavis, former Cambridge Don (1930-50) Snow's famed thesis on the misunderstanding between the "two cultures," science and humanities, "exhibits an utter lack of intellectual distinction and an embarrassing vulgarity of style." Leavis labeled Snow as not only "portentously ignorant," but also as a non-novelist who "can't be said to know what a novel is." And worse, Snow is a middlebrow promoter of science who "has become for a vast public on both sides of the Atlantic...
Mano o Mano. In life, Juan Belmonte's triumph was a victory of utter weakness. He stood fast in the path of the bull, directing its charge with a close sweep of his crimson muleta, winding the bull around him, said Ernest Hemingway, "like a belt-his right leg pushed toward the bull, in that bent slant which will be copied but never made truly until another genius comes in the same twisted body." Twisted, small, weak, Belmonte survived with courage that was more than a match for his inability to move with the bull. "My legs were...
Hollow Boast. Sitting nervously among the big nuclear powers were the eight "middlemen" of the U.N. disarmament meeting, the delegates of Brazil, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden and Egypt. Many were utter novices in the murky technicalities of the cold war, but, being wooed by both East and West, they soon rallied under the leadership of India's V. K. Krishna ("The Unspeakable") Menon. Brazil's Foreign Minister Francisco San Thiago Dantas, for example, criticized the Soviet Union for last fall's tests, went right ahead to urge the U.S. to cancel its own spring series...
...your article on Poland [Feb. 23] you stated that that country's corn yield reached 449 bu. per acre in 1961. Such an astronomical figure must surely have made many a Midwestern farmer wince in utter astonishment...