Word: contemptibility
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Infantile Jeers. Last week, when President Eisenhower flew to Formosa, Peking demonstrated its view of peaceful coexistence by likening Eisenhower to "a rat running across the street; everyone wants to step on him and squash him." As Red artillerymen threw shells of "contempt" on Chinese Nationalist positions at Quemoy, they shouted (according to Radio Peking): "Eisenhower, go back. Fire! U.S. aggressors, get out of Formosa. Fire! Get out of Japan. Fire! Get out of Korea. Fire! Get out of Asia. Fire! We shall liberate Formosa. Fire...
...real villains of the novel are the unscrupulous distillers-who make cheap whisky by adding prune juice to grain neutral spirits-and the temperance wowsers. The author writes of these malefactors with great eloquence and contempt, accusing the former of betraying mankind for profit and the latter of sexual irregularities...
...longer useful for flags, the stars and stripes on shirts and sheets strike visiting U.S. tourists as a desecration. In Washington last week Oregon Congressman Charles O. Porter introduced a bill to stop the manufacture, sale or gift of any type of U.S. flag where its use might "cast contempt." It will probably go through, but until then, Haiti's peasantry will continue to look like a Navy recruiting poster...
...believe that many human feelings are scheduled for liquidation." The interrogator: "Such as?" Ivan: "Pity, tenderness, pride, jealousy, love-in a word, almost all the feelings of which the human soul was made up. I want to organize a final parade of those feelings." A fine state of mutual contempt exists between the subversive team of Ivan-Kavalerov and the living symbols of the new order, Andrei Babichev and his protege Volodia. Babichev is Ivan's brother, a revolutionary who has been rewarded with the directorship of the Food Industry Trust. He is a glutton whose finest efforts...
...Gaulle's iciest contempt is reserved for French politicians. In his view, France needed a leader who could stand above the political squabbles that had given France 102 governments between 1875 and 1940 (while the U.S. made out with 14). He gave the Communists political rights, but refused to let them take over under the guise of Resistance patriots. He got France started on the way to economic recovery. Yet these and other accomplishments, says De Gaulle, meant less to the old-line politicians than their loss of freedom to hamstring him. In the end, he knew that...