Word: retort
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Captain's Retort. In Funchal, many of the survivors bitterly accused the Lakonia's crew of cowardice, panic and incompetence in the face of the disaster. One woman charged that she found a Greek crewman looting her cabin when she went to get her life jacket, and another claimed that a sailor had made a pass at her. Undoubtedly, many of the accusations were the result of passenger terror and hysteria and the fact that few of the crew spoke English, thus causing their intentions to be misconstrued. But it was evident that the fire-fighting procedures were...
...your country, children are killed in a church for the sole reason that their color is different," K. snapped back. Before anyone could make the obvious retort-that murder at the Wall, unlike murder in Birmingham, is an act of the government-Khrushchev was off on something else...
...next concert (October 21), the New York Chamber Soloists will join Dunn and the Festival Orchestra to present The Musical Offering. Even at the Dunn's interpretation of this musical retort to Frederick the Great should be worth hearing. Certainly Dunn's first batch of Bach last Saturday...
...Bitter Retort. Tuskegee city officials, backed by most of the community's citizens, protested Wallace's action as an "invasion." But the high school stayed shut-and Wallace ordered most of his troopers to move on to Birmingham, where integration was supposed to start on Wednesday. As the state cops were leaving Tuskegee, Wallace's on-the-scene straw boss, State Finance Director Seymore Trammell, walked...
...other summers, the tree-shaded grounds of Salem College, in Winston-Salem, N.C., have been hushed in the eerie stillness that haunts deserted campuses. But this year the campus is bubbling like a chemical retort with a heady new experiment. Four hundred of North Carolina's most brilliant and creative high school students (fall-term juniors and seniors-to-be) have been brought together for an intensive eight-week study program, thanks to the state's fervently education-minded Governor Terry Sanford. Guiding principle behind this summer school is the Governor's belief that education precedes economic...