Word: gibe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catholics insist upon it. To many if not most Protestants, Catholics are lazy, "breed like rabbits," and have the Queen's picture on the pound notes in their pockets but not on their walls. "Are you loyal to the Crown or the half-crown?" goes an old Protestant gibe...
...manufacture peripherals and make the computers of both companies compatible. Norris contends that the joint venture will enable both firms to share research and development costs, while providing each with a full line of computers. Other computer executives, noting that NCR has only 3.9% of the worldwide computer market, gibe that the joint venture is only a case of "putting two losers together." An earlier attempt at a merger with Honeywell, a profitable computer maker also based in Minneapolis, fell through when Norris insisted that he become head of the merged operation...
Senior guard Dale Dover scored a 15-foot jump shot from the corner as the final buzzer rang in Saturday afternoon's basketball game in the IAB to gibe Harvard a 62-60 victory over Princeton...
Tunney has ridden at night in a police car and he demands that the men in blue be protected from would-be assassins, evoking a "Tunney-come-lately" gibe from Spiro Agnew. He also exploits California's rising rate of unemployment, as high as 15% in some job categories, tells laboring men who are satisfied with that to vote for George Murphy. He keeps a generous distance between himself and Reagan's Democratic opponent, Jess Unruh, who now appears certain to lose...