Word: gibe
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Firm Tug. Limping because of her broken foot, Polly Mills grabbed her husband's hand and firmly tugged him through the mob of newsmen at the Little Rock airport. One man held up a sign that read SUPPORT THE KENNEDY-MILLS WATER SAFETY BILL, but that gibe did not appear to reflect the majority opinion on Mills' escapade. The next evening an enthusiastic gathering of Jaycees laughed and shouted "Good for you, Wilbur" as Mills attempted to explain what had happened. "I was one of those who went out one night and did something I shouldn...
...Richard Nixon may not listen to Dr. Tkach, but he'll certainly take advice from Dr. Miller." That waspish Washington gibe reflected the cynicism, perhaps unfair, that greeted the news that this week the ex-President will finally enter a hospital for treatment of his thrombophlebitis. Dr. Walter Tkach, of course, is the former White House physician who two weeks ago, on a flying trip to California, had no luck at all in persuading Nixon to go into a hospital. Tkach even quoted his patient as saying that he feared he would die if he did so. "Dr." Miller...
...English burglar recently broke into a games manufacturing company and stole a fortune-in fake Monopoly money. The crook's confusion is not as funny as it sounds. So serious is Britain's continuing inflation that the current gibe by critics is that Monopoly pounds may soon be worth as much as the real thing...
...reported: a lovers' tiff. The British press's ardor for prickly Princess Anne is waning as her Nov. 14 marriage to Captain Mark Phillips approaches. Annoyed by the command that servicemen pass the hat for the young couple, newsmen were further rankled by Horsewoman Anne's gibe after she took a fall at the European equestrian championships in Kiev: "Sorry to disappoint but I'm not badly hurt." Not even the special wedding stamp is getting its licks. Cynics note that before the princess would put her best face on it, critical retouching was required...
...reason, of course, lies in the troop reductions that, along with a sharp decline in draft calls and casualties, have largely neutralized the antiwar movement. But there is more to the President's strength in the polls than is indicated by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's glib gibe that "the American public understands the difference between addition and subtraction." Some observers, among them Leslie Gelb, who headed the "Pentagon papers" study during the Johnson Administration, reckon that the real difficulty in sustaining protest against Nixon's handling of the war began after the Laos incursion...