Word: retort
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...friend of Howard Hughes and a friend of mine." Hugh Fulton, said Brewster, suggested that the investigation might turn out to be a hot potato for the Senator. That, said Brewster, incensed him so much that he called in his stenographer and had her take down his scorching retort in Fulton's presence...
...speech prepared for delivery in New York this week, Republican Adviser John Foster Dulles largely echoed Secretary Marshall's conclusions. He added a new retort to an old accusation: "The positions we took will show the world that we have ideas and ideals and not merely dollars...
Your "tongue-in-cheek" profile of Fred Allen was marvelous. Tell me: What was Allen's retort...
Said a London cockney: "He certainly knows how to talk to common people." Said Winston Churchill (according to one report): Wallace is "a crypto-Communist -one who has not got the courage to explain the destination for which he is making."* Wallace's retort: "I am a progressive Tory...
...conference strained over discords. India's Moslem League boycotted it, but the delegates from other heavily Moslem nations ignored the League's protests over their presence.* Vietnamese delegates called Cambodians "French puppets" and drew a retort from Her Highness You Pan Tror, a stocky, swarthy Princess, that Cambodia would have nothing to do with Viet Nam. Princess You also quarreled loudly with her interpreter (the conference's many voices were translated into Asia's lingua franca-English...