Word: gibe
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...ruling that it is not illegal to advocate overthrow of the U.S. Government as "an abstract principle divorced from any effort to instigate action to that end." Some of the loudest outcries came from newspapers that had championed McCarthy; they ranged from the Omaha World-Herald's gibe that it is now "all right to teach that the White House should be blown up," to the Cleveland Plain Dealer's invitation: "Well, comrades, you've got what you wanted. The Supreme Court has handed it to you on a platter. Come...
...trade is already pledged to Russia and the satellites. Though British exports to China are expected to double, they will still amount to less than 1% of total British exports. But in British terms adherence to the U.S. position had subjected the government to an unbearable political gibe that Britain was simply being a "lackey" to Washington. Said one government official: "We cannot persuade our people that China is a greater danger in the world than Russia- especially after the events in Hungary. We just cannot explain to British businessmen any longer why they can sell jeeps or tractors...
...London Bill" Tucker's arrogant letter in your Feb. 11 issue-with its haughty gibe about American boys being "overfed, overpaid, oversexed, and over here"-brought back memories of the way we answered this crack during World War II. We damned well let them know that their blokes were underfed, underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower...
...your Sept. 24 story on the Maine election, you gibe at Washington pundits for their explanation of the Democratic victory, but a sentence later you do some odd punditmg yourself: "Support came in strongly from the throngs of independents who ... did not take a shine to the warnings that 'a vote for Muskie is a vote against Ike.' " Isn't it barely possible that the independent voters of Maine agreed that a vote for Muskie was a vote against Eisenhower, and voted for Muskie for exactly that reason...
...this time, his was the greatest literary name in the Hispanic world, and after Primo de Rivera's death, he returned to Salamanca with national acclaim. But Don Miguel was really a Don Quixote, and his Quixote's genius for glory and self-destruction led him to gibe constantly at the liberal republic, to salute the Francoist rebels in 1936, and, characteristically, to live just long enough to regret it. "He alone is truly wise who is conscious of his madness," he said in a lecture at Oxford. "I am conscious of my madness; therefore I am truly...