Word: retort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...censorship is the one job I like very much." When he admitted that he found it necessary to ask Sally Rand "to put a little more on" recently, his audience showed signs of distinct disapproval. "You're hissing me only because I got there first,' was the Commissioner's retort...
...Army's headache list is a shortage of good corporals, sergeants and second lieutenants, without which Army's whopping training program may well founder. To get noncoms and shavetails in quantity, Army bosses may well have to junk some tenets of promotion by seniority. Stock Army retort to suggestions of promotion for merit has long been that such a system would encourage political toadying; but low-bracket officers must be found, even if dull-witted veterans are passed over to commission brainy tenderfeet. To ferret out officer material, all rookies are being interviewed in Big-Businesslike detail...
...delegates who delivered the petition were the same group who sponsored the between-the-halves stunt at the Yale Bowl, in which a caricature figure of the President conductng a military drill all by himself had his gun snatched away from him by "John Harvard 1941," and a chemical retort substituted in its stead...
...words were to be taken at their face value last week, a lot of them had dirty faces. The lie was freely passed; the retort discourteous was the rule. Slanderous accusations splattered like eggs. If any citizen could be found last week who believed half of what he heard, he must have been sad indeed. Whichever candidate was elected-if he were to believe his ears-the country was lost...
...Right. And a hearty reproof to the editor who failed to point it out specifically in TIME'S footnote, which said that "Saxe-Coburg-tmd-Gotha was the house of the British Royal Family which gazetted itself the House of Windsor only in 1917." (As a retort to that gazetting, Kaiser Wilhelm II and his court attended a command performance of Shakespeare's comedy, The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha...