Word: quip
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...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...
...Arts Trio in 1968, Cohen spent more than ten years with the Julliard String Quartet. He has also appeared as a guest artist with the distinguished Budapest Quartet. In some ways, Cohen is the most jocular of the Beaux Arts, often relieving the tension of rehearsals with a quick quip...
...Diego, Dorothea Morefield, who may almost have been serious in jesting that "I'm getting tired of the color yellow," also had a quip when her husband Richard called from West Germany. She pleaded, "The next time you're going to be late for dinner, please call." When John E. Graves reached his son Martin in Reston, Va., he confided, "Believe it or not, I didn't think I could, but I've discovered that I can find my way to the toilet alone...