Word: umpteenth
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...approaches him in the playground, he gets so nervous he ties his peanut-butter sandwich in knots. When he wins a bowling trophy-a rare triumph-his name turns out to be spelled wrong. "How can we lose when we're so sincere?" he cries after losing his umpteenth baseball game. "Charlie," says Milt Caniff, creator of the adventure strip Steve Canyon, "is everybody's Walter Mitty...
...dare give me any more of your damned nonsense, I will kick you from Hell to Hackney." In the 260 years since Admiral Sir George Rooke captured the Rock from Spain, the kicking match has gone on almost nonstop. Last week, when General Francisco Franco opened his umpteenth campaign to regain the terrain for Spain, the British were ready with both feet...
...Buddhist clergy whipped out another. At week's end, for example, they were clamoring for the head of the national police chief, who they said should be fired for having arrested Buddhists during the riots. Saigon's head monk, Thich Tarn Chau, handed the government his umpteenth ultimatum: If all Buddhist grievances were not resolved by Oct. 27, the religious community would call a general strike. What were the grievances? Said Chau, with deliberate vagueness: "Provocations and oppressions." Announced one influential monk, with his usual beatific smile: "Not a single Buddhist is satisfied." Out went the word...
That point was well illustrated last week when the Viet Cong guerrillas struck punishingly across the Mekong Delta. For the umpteenth time, an army battalion hurrying to relieve an outpost under attack-this time 120 miles south of Saigon-walked into an ambush in broad daylight...
Lodge takes a rear elevator to his sparsely furnished fifth-floor office, unstraps his revolver, puts it into a desk drawer alongside a .357 Smith & Wesson Magnum. The Magnum has been there since last October, when Lodge received his umpteenth warning of a plot against his life. The ambassador regards the lethal little gat rather wryly. Says he: "I guess it wouldn't discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put in a desk drawer...