Word: quipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hulking, tousled Mencken battered at boneheads and "dingdoodles" (Nathan's pet epithet for self-satisfied know-nothings). When Mencken died two years ago, his meat ax seemed as anachronistic as a halberd. But Critic Nathan-though the day had passed when he could kill a play with a quip-remained an acute and acidulous observer of the theater whose only visible sign of mellowing was his decision last year to enter the Roman Catholic Church...
...Russian-who put censors on his film and will have their embassy go over it again in the U.S.- were miffed at some of the cracks, notably when Hope said that he had seen "lots of TV aerials in Moscow but no sets." To Hope's quip that "the Russians are so proud of their Sputniks that anybody without a stiff neck is considered a traitor," a Soviet official commented dourly: "Treason is a very serious charge in the Soviet Union...
...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...