Word: gibe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After five weeks of sifting facts from your gibe-infested articles, I thought I was becoming more and more indifferent to your impudent tone towards non-radicals. The "welcome" to The Salient was so ridiculous that I just had to write and thank you.... it was my first laugh...
...speech, the President aimed a deceptive and somewhat mean-spirited gibe at his opponents, complaining about "a chorus of other voices protesting that we haven't had full economic recovery." Reagan did not acknowledge that he and his aides were slow to concede the inevitable: that a package of $280 billion in tax cuts and $130 billion in spending cuts over three years passed in July was certain to swell budget deficits far beyond what had been anticipated. The bond and stock markets have slipped dramatically since then in anticipation of a sluggish economy, continued high interest rates...
...from early editions of his own paper, laid a trap. He had the text of Part 4 changed slightly; the Star's version repeated the changes. He also altered Part 5 so that the first letters of the article's opening paragraphs spelled out HI MURRAY, a gibe at Star Editor Murray J. Gart. That trick did not work; the Star's version began with the letters YHMMDMYW...
...late Mayor Richard Daley had built into the last of the great urban juggernauts, even lost key local offices. Kennedy was beaten not only in black, Jewish and labor districts but also in Irish Catholic areas. Both Byrne and Kennedy proved unpopular, prompting Carter Campaign Manager Robert Strauss to gibe: "The mayor and Senator are having trouble walking around together. Each is a little heavy for the other to carry...
WATCH OUT, BISHOP, THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN, proclaimed one hand-painted poster, in a gibe at the biracial former government's Prime Minister, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who will be the Front's main rival in the February elections. The raucous demonstration was both a sign of the guerrillas' broad-based popular support and a reminder of the volatile emotions that still threaten the fragile truce. "Zimbabwe out of the gun," rang an aggressive cheer...