Word: quipped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second game, a mix-up caused Williams to pick up a letter from another player's bag and introduce a second "Q" into the game. The move--which Williams described as "unusual"--was judged within the rules and Williams grabbed 30 points with "quip...
...those days before the election, Gerald Ford danced across the great American political stage like Fred Astaire out on the back lot of MGM. Sometimes in tux and shiny slippers, other times in button-down and plaid, always with a smile, a beefy victory clasp and a quip, he shuffled along to the chants of the airport crowds, the brassy tunes of high school bands and occasionally a dance combo...
...quip drew a grimly appreciative laugh from some 80 builders, mortgage lenders, federal officials and Congressmen, who spent much of the all-day session listening to figures on the shambles that inflation and tight money have made of the construction industry. Among them: 901 builders went bankrupt in the first half of 1974, v. 706 during the same period a year ago. Construction-industry unemployment rose from 7.9% in February to 11.1% in August. Last week alone, electric utilities canceled plans to build nearly $2.5 billion worth of power plants, primarily because they cannot borrow at an acceptable cost...
...uncertain days of his first administration (1964-66) Wilson liked to quip: "A week is a long time in politics." Last week he indicated that seven days would not be at all long enough. "This government is not a transient and passing phenomenon," he told the House of Commons in his first visit back as Prime Minister. "We are planning for a year or more ahead. " Bob Mellish, Labor's chief whip, was bolder, declaring: "I shall behave as if we were a government with an enormous majority...
...This is the meaning of a free press. They're certainly entitled to print any criticism they want." One network executive takes the same elitist stance that angers Buchanan: "No one with an IQ over 70 reads anything in TV Guide except the listings." Which is a cute quip, but not quite accurate; network brass read the magazine with interest, if not affection...