Word: annoyances
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When you meet an elephant on the road," says the helpful Uganda government in its hints to travelers, "do not blow your horn. This may annoy him." Merely stop some distance away and rev your engine, and he will step aside. If, on the other hand, the traveler has no engine to rev, there should be no disputing the right of way-the visitor would do well to rev his feet and get out in a hurry...
...state that Cambodia follows a policy of "capricious neutralism." We are astonished at the fertile imagination of your writers in finding derogatory adjectives which, in addition to being inaccurate, seem to be calculated to needle and annoy...
...failed to get congressional permission before leaving the country to attend the U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan. The chances are that the impeachment trial will get pigeonholed by the Senate. The nation is beginning to feel the effect of a stabilized economy, and only a foolish politician would annoy the voters...
...wealth to help out his friends, including the caricaturist Daumier, who -impoverished and nearly blind-was about to be evicted from his cottage. Corot bought another cottage for Daumier and sent along a tongue-in-cheek explanation: "It is not for you I do this; it is merely to annoy your landlord...
...education of the kittens includes a comical first swimming lesson and a violent illustration of how to annoy a cayman (South American crocodilian). As the kits watch, the mother creeps up, whacks the tail of an enormous cayman, then darts back as it lunges for her. The game continues until the male jaguar takes over, feints past the cayman's jaws, gets a death grip and drowns the reptile. The jaguars lose no battles, although their prey sometimes escapes. Working singly or as a team, they kill a snorting peccary (wild pig) and a huge boa constrictor, and frighten...