Word: gibe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greece, for example, he respects Anaximander's intuition that man is biologically related to fish, but laughs at his injunction that therefore man should not eat fish. "Whether our brethren of the deep cherish equally delicate sentiments towards us is not recorded," Russell snuffles in a donnish gibe. It is almost as if the Greek fellow were declining the Dover sole as guest of the author at Trinity High Table...
...laugh when he wanted one. He stumbled-perhaps artfully-half a dozen times. Once he apologized for accidentally calling U.S. newsmen "comrades," once referred to the tenth anniversary of the revolution in "America" when he meant China. When he was asked about his celebrated "We will bury you" gibe at the U.S., Khrushchev explained calmly that capitalism was doomed to die not by his action but by the inexorable march of history: "We believe that Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin gave scientific proof of the fact...
...polls on Oct. 8. With the immemorial piety of the ins, Tory Party Chairman Lord Hailsham earnestly proclaimed: "I repudiate mudslinging and hope that neither party will indulge in it." Dutifully echoing this sentiment, Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell nonetheless could not resist the opportunity for a gibe at Hailshau:. "Any repentant sinner," said Gaitskell, "is always welcome...
Militant Reuther, by talking up the need for an "unemployment march" on Washington to dramatize the unemployment problem, swung the news spotlight on the Puerto Rico meeting. Asked in press conference what he would think about such a march, President Eisenhower countered with a rare gibe: "I don't see any good to come out of any such demonstration. I believe that news item came out of Puerto Rico. There people must be on the sunny beaches; I don't know whether they are going to march from there over to this foggy Washington...
...years of democracy," rumbled Orson Welles in the film The Third Man, "the only thing the Swiss have invented is the cuckoo clock." This gibe was not even correct: a German in the Black Forest invented the cuckoo clock. But it barely ruffled the Swiss, who often appear to think that they, not the Greeks, invented democracy, and that only they understand its proper practice. The cardinal rule of Switzerland's unwritten democratic law is that only men shall vote. In the rest of Europe, only tiny Liechtenstein and Monaco also deny the ballot to women...