Word: gibe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friends abroad. "Even if you haven't heard from them for years," suggested Liberation, "persuade them to put you up and change your money." Another notion: put on a suit and tie, obtain fake credentials and pass off your holiday as a business trip. Finally, in a gibe at the French bureaucracy that still has to come to terms with what is clearly an administrative nightmare, one commentator proposed that travelers simply smuggle their money out. "Just walk with your head high and the bills stuffed in your pockets. The customs agents won't think to look there...
...represent a portion of the public that is getting smaller and smaller," crowed Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin last week in a stinging gibe at the opposition Labor Party. Indeed, the party of David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir, the party that led Israel from the nation's birth in 1948 until Begin's electoral victory in 1977, was in deep trouble. With polls showing the Prime Minister's popularity at its highest point since his conservative Likud coalition came to power, small wonder that Begin was threatening to call early elections that could give...
...with his Defense Minister, but there were signs of a split between the two men even before Thursday's attack. As Cabinet ministers complained more and more openly that they were not being informed, let alone consulted, on the progress of the war, Begin remarked, in an obvious gibe at Sharon: "I always know everything that goes on, either beforehand or afterward...
Even Brezhnev has seemingly been ridiculed in an article published in the monthly literary magazine Avrora. Though the piece was ostensibly about an elderly writer "who refuses to die," many people read it as a gibe at Brezhnev, who has proved reluctant to step down from office in spite of his infirmities...
Despite the familiar French gibe that Britain is a country with 60 religions and only two sauces, Garmey names several that are unique and pleasant. One of them, made of meat stock, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce and mustard, is called, appropriately...