Word: quip
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...specialty for his own act just as easily as Father Boyd joined an entertainers' union. "Watch out," said Gregory. "The Rev. Boyd had a heckler last week, and he turned him into a pillar of salt." The peril of mixing show business and religion is that the quip may become more important than the Word...
Love of the Land. It was appropriate enough for Governor Pat Brown to accompany her every step of the way. Lady Bird endorsed him pointedly: "No one knows better than the grass-roots conservationists the value of having a believer in the Governor's chair." One quip had it that the real reason for her trip was "to beautify Pat Brown"-who needs all the help he can get in his race with Republican Ronald Reagan...
...immigrants in newspapers throughout Europe, attracts more than 3,000 a month. Its propaganda organs beat the drums for "more white babies." Last month a Cape Town scientist declared that, with proper training, baboons could replace Africans in menial tasks-a suggestion that led the Rand Daily Mail to quip that Verwoerd would soon offer them their own Baboonstan. But so hungry is the nation for manpower that employers everywhere are forced to give non-whites ever more and ever better jobs...
...necessarily derogatory to say that Ambassador Thai talks out of both sides of his mouth. His job requires it, and Thai is good at his job. He can field a question about President Johnson's motivation, smile knowingly, and toss off a quip to satisfy his interrogator without telling him a thing. When pressed to answer an embarrassing question, he'll promise "to come back to that point later," but never get around...