Word: quip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earnestly spiritual, caught up in a renewed interest in prayer. "We are going back to the Spiritual Exercises in a huge rush," he says. "They go around quoting from this little black book. They are consciously and deliberately spending more time in personal prayer." One quip going around: "Any day now, somebody's going to invent the rosary...
...next hour and a half Chou table-hopped. Through an interpreter, he alternately fielded and ducked the questions thrown at him, but usually with a quip...
Despite his playboy image, Kissinger remains in private a lonely man, who often turns to a quip when a question of substance touches him too deeply. Charming when he wants to be, he nevertheless harbors an intellectual ferocity that is both ruthless and stimulating. While Nixon has always made the key foreign policy decisions, it is primarily Kissinger who has elaborated the grand design in global relationships-a design based on a balance of power among all the major nations of both East and West-that so intrigues the President...
...York Herald Tribune). His handling of NBC's $100 million annual news budget will get close scrutiny, both from Madison Avenue and competitors. "We'll make changes," Wald said, "but not immediately." As if to stress the amicable nature of the change in command, he summoned a quip for his first day on the job: "I plan to continue in the grand tradition of American journalism, and I'll figure out tomorrow what that...
Armbruster says of Pamela, "Little girl! She's built like a Japanese wrestler." His quip fails, it hardly describes Juliet Mills. Not even plump, despite the insistence of the script, she single-handedly rescues the film from the early indulgence it grants Lemmon, allowing him to rant and rave and make monologue about the "grey haired son of a bitch." "Love is for filing clerk's, but not for the head of a conglomerate," he argues...