Word: gibe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Upton Sinclair showed that he was capable of a change of pace. Sticking to his promise to ditch his ubiquitous, ten-novel hero, Lanny Budd, he wrote Another Pamela; or, Virtue Still Rewarded, a sly gibe at rich, talky parlor liberals seen through the wide eyes of an ingenuous housemaid. His literary model: 18th Century Novelist Samuel Richardson's famed Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded...
...gibe was justified. MacArthur's intelligence, headed by Major General Charles A. Willoughby, had not been either drunk or asleep; nevertheless it had failed to find out what it should have found out about the enemy...
...Stayaways. Under new Senate rules, cloture requires a constitutional two-thirds majority (64) of the entire Senate. Before filing his petition, Lucas had challenged the Republicans to support him in trying to get the Senate to limit debate. The Republicans threw back a yelling gibe; it was up to Lucas to produce the necessary support from among the Trumancrats. An hour after Arthur Vandenberg took his seat, Barkley called for the cloture vote. It failed of passage by twelve votes. The score: 52 for, 32 against...
...with surprise. The J.C.S. was willing to listen. In the new budget the Navy had taken the heaviest slash. After the public quarreling over the 6-36, the Chiefs were anxious to prove that the services could get along; Omar Bradley in particular profoundly regretted his "fancy Dans" gibe at the Navy's admirals...
...people's revolution." On Britain: "If you dare to strike, troops come in and shoot you down." Of the occupation of Poland: "The country had collapsed and Russia figured she was going to be invaded." But he seldom missed a chance to throw in a scornful gibe: "These days, people trying to find out where you stand on the U.S. don't ask you that, but where you stand on Russia or Greece." When the prosecutor cracked, "You use the word 'line' with facility, don't you?" Bridges said blandly, "I'm a sailor...