Word: retort
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...volley of telegrams to newspapers warning them to check with the FCC before running it. Eleven of the 41 newspapers in Zenith's schedule canceled the ad. The TV-station-owning Detroit News ran it, but also published an answer. Gist of the News''s retort: "Anyone . . . who denies himself . . . the thrill of television because of 'frequency changes' could grow old and grey waiting for the change that may never come...
...words, including blasphemy and obscenity, in U.S. novels. "Son-of-a-bitch" had quite a literary past, going back at least to Shakespeare (in King Lear). Owen Wister sounded it more discreetly in The Virginian (1902), where it was cloaked as "son-of-a -." The Virginian's ringing retort was well remembered: "When you call me that, smile." The only question was: Was it quite the proper phrase for the President to use in public, with or without smiling...
...notorious army desertion in 1939 and subsequent run-out to Moscow, interrupted him when he reached the phrase, "If later our country should be dragged . . . into a war," and finished the sentence for him: "Je ficherais le camp [I would beat it]." Thorez flushed, but he made no retort...
...political group (2.) I believe it an academic abuse of the first magnitude to make disparaging references to a local public official and to recommend the programme of a political group without affording opportunity for those who disagree with such a reference and the programme recommended to retort immediately before the audience to which the reference was made and the program recommended. Any student who demanded the right to harangue the group would, of course, been out of order. (3.) The retort which would have sufficed, had a order. (3.) The retort which would have sufficed, had a retort been...
...retort Friedman and Pierce claimed that there was no evidence to show that a civil rights act was either unconstitutional or impractical...