Word: malignable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What we need is more "overeducated Oxford s.o.b.s" [Feb. 18] in Congress and fewer "shocking exposes" that are shocking only in their intent to malign...
...been alleged that John Lithgow is a giraffe. Those who maintain this position malign his genius. He is the best comic actor at Harvard, not for any physical peculiarity, but because his sense of timing, his vocal and muscular control, are more refined than anyone else...
...similar groups, ignore the other half of the reality. They alternatively argue that the Chinese have nothing to do with the specific injustices at issue in Vietnam (i.e. it is simply a peasant revolt in which the U.S. has no business meddling); or that the liberal warmongers malign the peaceloving Chinese with their charges of aggression; or, in their frankest moments, that Chinese imperialism is better for the East than American imperialism. This underlying bias is in no way preferable to the liberal bias. It is one of the minor tragedies of undergraduate politics that M-2-M has become...
...from the Rh-negative mother. If the damage was moderate, obstetricians delivered the baby prematurely and gave it transfusions of Rh-negative blood. But if the fluid showed severe damage when the fetus was still too premature for delivery, the obstetrician could only sit back and wait for a malign nature to take its course...
...everything that happened on the Continent was ascribed to his malign influence. When Richelieu died, a British rival wrote, "He was the torment and the ornament of his age," and added that it was strange that Richelieu "is shut up dead in so small a space, whom, when living, the whole earth could not contain." Richelieu and his successor, Cardinal Mazarin, left Louis XIV so remarkable a diplomatic organization that French gradually displaced Latin as the diplomatic language of Europe...