Word: gibe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spinning in their seats, scores of delegates, including India's Nehru, stared at Khrushchev incredulously. Unruffled, Macmillan went on to gibe at Soviet talk of colonialism in Africa. Where are the representatives of Britain's former colonies?, he asked. "Here, here, here and here"-pointing around the big semicircle where sat the delegates of India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Ghana, Malaya. "The Soviet authorities would do better to explain why they have consistently denied the right of self-determination to the people of East Germany." Khrushchev glowered. Macmillan went on to lay the blame for the failure of past disarmament...