Word: retort
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...This retort can only be feeble, compared with what I feel. I wish I had the talent to adequately convey how revolted I am by this kind of hooliganism. Consider this letter a panicky gasp, on my part, for some clean...
...York's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. is a much criticized man, but he has a handy retort to any charge leveled against him: the critic, says Powell, is obviously prejudiced against Negroes...
...Cuba relations-and that sensitivity often leads to confusion. Thus, speaking in Houston last week. Secretary of State Dean Rusk insisted that "Cuba will not be permitted to use any of its arms outside Cuba. A Soviet military presence on that island cannot be accepted." That brought a wry retort from Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken. "I wish," said Aiken, "that Secretary Rusk could make that determination retroactive, because the Russians apparently are occupying Cuba in force, and I understand Soviet-made weapons are showing up in considerable quantities in other Latin American countries...
...match perhaps, with its properly defined hero and villain. The assumption of Hoffa's guilt sets the tone of the unending fight. This month Teamster officials charged that certified bonding agents throughout the nation had been ordered not to serve Teamster personnel, and the Justice Department felt it could retort: "We never comment on anything Mr. Hoffa...
...Labor's ranks demoralized by Leader Hugh Gaitskell's death, Macmillan trounced a no-confidence vote 337-234. Then, in a supreme gesture of self-confidence, Harold Macmillan fielded an Opposition question about the possibility of "the door being reopened to entry into Europe" with the bland retort: "Does the honorable Member mean in this Parliament, or in the next Administration which I hope to form...