Word: lackeys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bars of this serves as my daily patriotic pap and it elicits remarkable 'American' feelings and responses. At night we get a few laughs by listening to the English-language news reports from Peking--the announcers have a vocabulary range of about 35 words chief among them being 'lackey, stooge, reactionary, aggressor, imperialist, fascist, nazi, and Glorious Chairman...
Posing as the lackey of a nonexistent count, Sellers persuades the senorita to wait with him evening after evening for the aristocrat to arrive. Out of bore dom, Eklund endures him, then tolerates him, and at last-her cool melted by champagne-falls in love. The morning after Sellers wins his wager, he confesses all in an orgy of guilt. Raging, the seducee marches him at shotgun point to a bathtub full of cerulean stain. Bobo is last seen in a bullfight poster proclaiming his indisputably unique credentials as "The Singing Blue Matador...
...indeed was part of the movement now began turning on the President and all his works. Thus, Ramparts published an editorial written by Marcus Raskin, evincing great concern that I seemed to think more Negroes should be in the armed forces (I do); and indicting me further as a lackey of the "social welfare monopolicy--with its cop and spying attributes" that now proposed to force decent proletarian Negroes to live like the white bourgeoisie and to "torture" them with birth control. I had become a most suspect person indeed in the ranks of SNCC and CORE, and the Presidential...
...political heir of ex-Strongman Adnan Menderes, whom the army overthrew in 1960 and executed. As a result, the army was at first suspicious of him, and the left-of-center opposition, led by Inönü, did its noisiest best to discredit him as a lackey of the U.S. For months the opposition man aged to block every government bill, since Demirel lacked a majority in the upper house of Parliament. Finally, the new Premier undercut Inönü by softening his stand against the East, wooed two independent Senators into his party, and won the full...
...already split over who should succeed Silent Sam Giancana as head of Chicago's hoodlumhood. One night last week two groups of aspiring chieftains reportedly held simultaneous meetings. One was attended by such upstanding citizens as Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca, Tony ("Big Tuna") Accardo and Jackie ("The Lackey") Cerone. The other gathering was graced by Sam ("Teetz") Battaglia, Felix ("Milwaukee Phil") Alderisio and Fiori ("Fifi") Buccieri. The betting was that several of the syndicate's leading lights would soon resort to silence-one way or another...