Word: backtalk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia's Andrei Gromyko, who recently has had the unusual experience of having to listen to some unvarnished New England backtalk, painted an extraordinary word picture of his tormentor. Chief U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Said Gromyko: "The U.S. representative has not been speaking, but swearing, using a jargon of the hillbilly shepherds in the mountains of Kentucky...
...Backtalk & Business. His meeting with Wallis Warfield Simpson, at a house party, was hardly love at first sight. But later, visiting Mrs. Simpson's London salon, the Prince was impressed by her ease amid all the heady talk, and by her forthright backtalk ("One of the happier outcomes of the events...
...were high. There were self-conscious attempts at social snobbery, but neither the tradition nor the wealth and power which produce Newports, obsequious clerks and polite Park Avenue doormen; the Northwest's waitresses and laundry drivers were a neighborly lot, but were glad to say they took no backtalk from the customers...