Word: retort
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Deity. "God'll getcha for that," she warns those who cross her. She is a fighter who takes on city hall, featherbedding repairmen and department-store complaint departments. She can deck an adversary with an arch of a single brow as surely as with an adder-tongued retort like last week's explanation of a black eye: "I was jumping rope-without...
Brandt's aides retort that the German government has no intention of turning neutral, nor could it economically afford to leave the EEC. The real culprit, they say, is Paris, whose obfuscations and petty legalisms have stalled progress in the EEC for so long that many West Germans have grown irritated and disillusioned...
...warned that certain White House aides were trying to "mortally wound" the President by interfering with the FBI and the CIA (TIME Aug. 13). To this astonishing assertion, Nixon merely replied: "Pat, you just continue to conduct your aggressive and thorough investigation." Had Gray been surprised by this curious retort? "Frankly," he said, "I expected the President to ask me some questions." Indeed, he waited for two weeks to answer the questions that were never asked, and then, when he heard nothing further from the President, he concluded that he had been an "alarmist...
Goodyear and Firestone officials hotly retort that their companies increased their shares of the market merely by serving their customers well, and that the companies they acquired were incapable of surviving independently in a bitterly competitive business. Industry sources point out that Firestone bought out Seiberling Rubber Co., one of the acquisitions challenged by the Justice Department, only after getting feelers from the financially rocky firm. Lee Tire & Rubber had not produced a single tire in the past 30 months before it was acquired by Goodyear in 1966. Firestone issued a statement saying that the Government suit against...
...those questioned regard Japan as "an unfriendly country." On the cover of Vision, a European business monthly, the Japanese businessman was depicted as a belligerent, muscle-flexing superman. German executives do not like it that Japanese salaries are generally 10% to 30% higher than their own. The Japanese politely retort that their success is merited because they work harder to sell to Europeans than Europeans do to sell to them...