Word: quip
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...insurgents they sponsor has soared. It is a reminder of Bismarck's forecast 20 years before the outbreak of World War I: "If there is another war in Europe, it will come out of some damn silly thing in the Balkans." The lesson: don't take Churchill's quip literally. Choose your friends and enemies with equal care, for today's easy way out can create tomorrow's nightmare...
...trying to get in touch with my ‘passive driver’ side,” I quip...
...Jiang consider Falun Gong such a threat to China? It is because the country's leaders no longer have any convictions to cling to and are therefore insecure about their legitimacy. They talk communist but act capitalist. "Flash the left indicator, turn to the right," is a popular mainland quip on hypocrisy in high places...
...Losers WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Busted! Pipes found in the Bard's home reveal traces of cocaine. Doobie, or not doobie? ALAIN DUCASSE We thought the tuna melt was fine. Michelin guide dethrones French gastronomic king ABDURRAHMAN WAHID Indonesian Prez goes on pilgrimage while Borneo burns. Too tragic for a quip Verbatim...
...columns. Not editorial colums--these pieces, arguing policy against an angry band of letter-writers, were rather arcane fare for the 12-year-old reading the paper over the cereal bowl and rushing to make the bus. Instead, it was the city columnists and their "items": the short quip, the humorous event or the milestone in the life of one individual that would have otherwise gone unnoticed. These are often the kernels of stories which don't deserve a fuller telling but are too interesting merely to leave out. Such columns are an art form, and Herb Caen, a Pulitzer...