Word: gibe
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...Pray to God; she will hear us," runs the standard feminist gibe at "sexism" in the churches. More churchmen, as well as churchwomen, are beginning to agree that there is something to gibe about. Despite the array of strong women in the Old Testament and Jesus' easy assumption of sexual equality in the New, they contend that paternalistic traditions and the very language of faith need to be revised...
Carter then flew to Des Moines, where he had scored the first victory in his campaign last January. He chatted with several giggling teen-age waitresses and noted good-humoredly that several diners nearby were wearing badges proclaiming EYE-OWA EYE-TALIANS FOR CARTER, a gibe at his back-home mispronunciation of Italians during his acceptance speech...
...Ford speaker on TV praised the President's courage in doggedly saying no to the Congress, Reagan piped up: "Yeah, but when's he going to say no to that budget?" A reference to Ford's widespread popularity around the world brought another Reagan gibe. As the large states of New Jersey and Ohio sang out their tallies, Reagan indulged in some arguable hindsight: if only he had gone into a few of the larger Northern states, he said, he could have won them. When New York's Dick Rosenbaum, his bald, sunburned head rising above...
...second side of Wish You Were Here begins with "Have a Cigar", a cut memorable as a satyrical gibe at people who initially failed to appreciate the group's talent...
...only a few weeks old when Columnist William Shannon, writing in [More], found the White House-press honeymoon distressing; reporters, he said, should be more like a nagging collective mother-in-law than an affectionate spouse. Then Columnist George Will challenged the "English muffin theory of history"-a gibe at the overly generous play given Gerald Ford's staged self-service breakfast. Now the Los Angeles Times, with less humor but far more depth, has examined coverage of Ford and also found it wanting...