Word: quip
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...Where the headlines gave rise to the quip: "Nervous as a midget in Moscow...
...introverted intellectual like Lenin, no hysterical neurotic like Hitler, no brooding Byzantine murderer like Stalin. This was a cocky, ebullient farm boy-a man who could work all day, drink all night and, as he demonstrated again and again last week, jauntily settle historic issues with a quip or a proverb...
...With a quip and a toast from Nikita Khrushchev, the great Middle East war scare collapsed. For the embarrassed Syrians, there was no concealing the loud whistle of escaping...
...movie, a talking version of The Unholy Three, in which he played both a ven- triloquist and a fiendish old lady. There was a popular gag going around at that time about insects: "Don't step on it; it may be Lon Chaney in disguise!" Chaney regarded the quip as a true com- pliment...
Brower became vice president in 1940, one of several executive vice presidents in 1946. Along the way, he earned a reputation for the sardonic quip and an analytical approach to problems. Last week, Charlie Brower displayed both qualities. Said he: "Many of the people who wouldn't hire me at first are still here-and they still say they were right...