Word: jibe
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...rebuttal Churchill observed: "It was the sort of speech with which I imagine the illustrious and venerable Marshal Petain might well have enlivened the closing days of the Reynaud Cabinet. ..." There was loud laughter at this jibe...
...Bingham's attitude in the present instance does not jibe with his record. His stand on the Annapolis incident is now a matter of history, but the question is by no means dead. What will happen next year if the lacrosse or any other team returns to Annapolis with a colored player on the roster? What will happen if the Navy football team, on the other hand, comes to Cambridge next fall to find a Negro on the Harvard squad...
...Beecher and Wheelwright are poets of vastly different stripes but of the same cloth. Each is a product, and a proponent, of the great, unfinished American Rebellion. Each is trying to make the living god jibe with brass tacks...
...adissimo. Spaniards' designation of Don Ramón as the brother-in-law-issimo is a none-too-gentle jibe at both Serrano and the Generalissimo. Privately they sometimes call Franco "that pulpy olive fashioned into the likeness of a man." For most Spaniards feel that Franco is a wobbler, that Ramón Serrano Suñer is the power behind the fasces...
...this point there is general agreement among Tom, Jim, and Aubrey. But they don't jibe on the mechanism needed to assure able young people from all economic classes a chance to continue their education. Jefferson thought that having public schools and colleges was enough; President Conant believes that private scholarships are needed; and Mr. Williams puts up a brief for public scholarship assistance. The Jeffersonian notion is thoroughly outmoded, and the President's faith in the adequacy of private funds is also no longer tenable--his own annual pleas for scholarship funds growing more and more urgent as continued...