Word: petulante
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"This Petulant Ajax." The maneuver was almost unprecedented. Not since 1856 had a President called back Congress in an election year.* It was a daring stroke of political chicanery. For the moment, at least, Harry Truman had destroyed the notion that the Republican Party would win almost by default. Like...
The cries from the opposition testified to the effectiveness of the maneuver. "This petulant Ajax from the Ozarks," warned New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, would be answered by the "maddest Congress you ever saw." Southern Democrats were even hotter. Cried Georgia's Senator Walter George: "The South...
As mayor of New York he is almost the antithesis of the man he succeeded. La Guardia, the imaginative, tireless, dictatorial little crusader, was also a spiteful petulant exhibitionist with a passion for speeding through the city in police cars and making faces at cameramen. At 57, Bill O'...
Made statuesque by her 30 added pounds and sporting as always a great white gardenia in her glossy hair, Billie took her homage like a queen. Her voice, a petulant, sex-edged moan, was stronger than ever although she had done no singing at the reformatory. Seemingly tireless and with...
The pitch was petulant, as usual, but the lines had the lingering quality of an old torch song at midnight. "It's never, never, never," intoned James Caesar Petrillo. "That's all there is to it." And at midnight on New Year's Eve that was all...