Word: gibe
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...minutes they set up a metallic din that can be heard for blocks around-their way of protesting steadily worsening food shortages. Some mornings, people gather outside the Bernardo O'Higgins Military School and pelt cadets with wheat and rice, amid shouts of "Gallinas, gallinas!" (chickens, chickens), a gibe at the army's staunch refusal to oust President Salvador Allende Gossens...
...entitled Documentos Secretos de la ITT (Secret Documents of ITT). For the most part, the government-sponsored book is a straightforward collection of the Jack Anderson memos alleging that ITT officials worked to prevent Allende from taking office in 1970. The official translators, though, could not resist one pointed gibe. On page 12, the term Foggy Bottom, a traditional way of referring to the U.S. State Department, is defined as "the nickname applied to a group of incompetent pinheads...
...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...