Word: quipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life when mismanagement and incompetence have brought us into greater danger ... In every quarter of the world we are regarded by our friends with anxiety, with wonder and pity; and by our enemies . . . with hostility or even contempt. . . Not one of them is so weak they cannot spare a quip or even a taunt for Britain. [Yet] we have but to cast away, by an effort of will, the enfeebling tendencies and fallacies of socialism . . ." Bevan and the other ministers who resigned had "rendered a public service," said Churchill, by drawing attention to the government's failure...
...little man from Toledo breasts the big winds blandly, a smile on his face and an endless stream of wisecracks, wise sayings and smart answers on his lips. He arrived in Washington with a typical quip...
...quip pointed up the fact that after eight months of war in Korea, the civilian shortages predicted by Washington's hair-shirt cult had not materialized. The booming auto industry, which three months ago dropped thousands of workers because of a materials pinch, had now rehired most of them. Last week the automakers turned out 168,000 units, 40% above the 1950 period when Chrysler was closed by a strike. Building was nearly 25% above the February 1950 figure. And in January business inventories jumped $2 billion to $63 billion despite peak retail sales...
There is no Texan like a Texan born some place else. Texans think this quip perfectly tailored for Amarillo Publisher Gene Howe, who has become the voice of the vast Texas Panhandle by outshouting the natives and trying to forget that he was born in Kansas. In both his Amarillo Globe and News, his garrulous daily column, "The Tactless Texan," is the fountainhead of authentic Panhandle lore...
...Short moved in, Stephen T. Early, who had been filling in since the death of Charles G. Ross (TIME, Dec. 18), bowed out with a little quip. Said Early, now a vice president of Pullman, Inc.: "If it was [a job as] a dollar-a-year man, I figure the President owes me about four and six-tenths cents...