Word: retort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the protesters should have kept silent, or even that they should have limited their criticism to discussing the issue with Mr. Mansfield. He wrote an opinion piece ("A Poor Defense of Diversity," Guest Commentary, April 8, 1996), and I am certain that The Crimson would have welcomed a retort. In such an article, the argument of the protesters could be developed beyond slogans and adhominem attacks. Many of us would have been more impressed, more sympathetic and more likely to be convinced if they had answered his arguments, just as he answered President Rudenstine's report...
When he was challenged by accusations from faculty members that these reports, a study on diversity and an open letter to the Harvard community on affirmative action, were politically motivated, the president repeatedly pounded the table to emphasize each word of his retort...
Well, allow me to retort. Harvard students are grown up enough to vote in the national elections of a country of 260 million, which the administration needs to be reminded is larger, more important, and even--gasp--wealthier than our precious University. Those of us in Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) programs are grown up enough to train to kill and, if necessary, die for this country. But the administration is probably right: I'm not grown up enough to choose where I live...
With the A.M.A. firmly at his side, Gingrich trained his guns on Clinton, threatening to send the President completed legislation in November and then immediately adjourn to prevent Congress from "receiving" Clinton's inevitable vetoes. That drew a quick retort from the White House, where spokesman Michael McCurry said Clinton would respond to such a move by invoking the constitutional clause that enables the President to force Congress into session. Gingrich next suggested that Clinton wouldn't dare veto a balanced budget because he needed it to be re-elected, prompting Clinton to declare that he would rather face defeat...
Today in our nation's capital, black men from the all over the country are uniting to march in an unprecedented testimony to black self-responsibility and to the future of the black community. This march represents a resounding retort to the chilling statistic recently released that one third of all black males between the ages of 20 and 29 are somehow involved in the penal system, either on trial, in jail, or on parole...