Word: bantering
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Behind the lighthearted banter was a grimly sober realization: every time Ford loses a primary, Kissinger is bound to get some-or much-of the blame. When the President lost the North Carolina primary, for example, his confidant Mel Laird and his campaign chairman Rogers Morton both remarked that Kissinger would not remain in office much longer. After the more critical setbacks in Texas and Indiana, Kissinger was under even greater fire from a number of top Republicans and White House aides...
Their romance continues in this fashion, moving from barbed banter to admissions of continued affection. Marian tells Robin her confessions were "the envy of the convent," then reminds him with a pretty sulk, "You never wrote." Says Robin, "I don't know how." Seeing Marian, being back in Sherwood, rekindles Robin's spirits. Age and old scars are forgotten, save in times of extreme stress-as in a sword fight on the castle walls of Nottingham. It is just the sort of escapade that Marian was hoping Robin would abandon...
...Logan,, Powell, New York Timesman R.W. "Johnny" Apple, Baltimore Sun man Adam Clymer '58, and Washington Post ace Jules Witcover sought refuge in the back of the bus. Witcover, who had just arrived "two days ago" in the Northeast, brooded in the back, but Apple and Powell traded banter...
Public Putdown. The wisecrack was an extraordinary bit of prenegotiation banter and an embarrassingly public putdown of Kissinger. Still, after eight hours of bargaining with Brezhnev across a felt-topped table and another four hours of talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Kissinger left Moscow with something to show for his journey...
...this poet can handle provocative banter all right. It bursts from the wide body of her "Poem for Aretha...