Word: quip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Port of Spain, Trinidad. "The charge is unjust," he said. In his version of the encounter, "This girl mentioned that she had written an erotic poem. Later I asked her what she had done for the weekend and she said she went with her boyfriend. I made some quip about that, but there was no intention to be in any way offensive. And if she felt I was, then she could have cut me short or walked away. I never touched...
...media machine was well-oiled for Bogart Jackson. His background was anomalous; most pro golfers were culled from denizens of the pro shops, but Bogart Jackson's daddy inhabited the h alls of academe. Bogart Jackson was quick with a quip and a smile and would fit neatly in an ABC 30-second profile. Officials in crested blazers drooled at the prospect of Bogart Jackson trading wisecracks with Dave Marr or Byron Nelson or the writers. They pictured Bogart Jackson in a pink Izod t-shirt, navy polyester slacks, Spalding shoes, crunching the all-new dimple pattern off of Dunlop...
...spirit, too, seems as jaunty as ever. At a White House screening of The French Lieutenant's Woman, Reagan drew laughs from his guests with the deprecatory quip: "I tried to get Bedtime for Bonzo, but it wasn't available." While plugging his economic policies at another White House gathering, he spotted a teenager in a front row. "There's a young lady," he,said, "who's really a pretty good reason for everything that we're doing to see if this country won't be as good to her and her friends...
...that the yield may plunge to a calamitous 170 million tons, or 28% less than the 236 million-ton goal set forth in the current five-year plan. The chief reasons for the pessimism are drought in the Ukraine, the Volga Valley and elsewhere plus chronic agricultural mismanagement. Soviets quip that the first member of the Politburo to die will be blamed for the mess in agriculture, but it is no laughing matter. Says Marshall Goldman, the associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "The Soviet Union finds itself with a disaster of unprecedented magnitude on its hands...
...human bones, which he said he had gathered while secretly scouting the area. Said Goren: "I found the bones with my own hands. I dirtied two suits. I have a whole sack of bones I could have brought with me." The mounting opposition to the excavations caused Begin to quip at one point that "you'd think Jews have enough problems without digging underground for more...