Word: retort
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Kilte registered surprise when a Holyoke maid said she was taking only Gov. "just Gov." You haven't a very difficult schedule, have you?" said the announcer- ess. "I didn't come here to have a very difficult schedule," was the retort...
...proposes not only to leave vacancies unfilled but for the first time to dismiss some 475 permanent appointees. The Mayor's point: enrollment in the city's schools has dropped nearly 150,000 in the last six years (because of the falling birth rate). The teachers' retort: in the city's schools there are still more than 10,000 unmanageably big classes (40 pupils or more...
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...Court Retort. In a Baton Rouge court a low-voiced witness was urged to speak up. He smiled brightly: "Hello, Judge...
...well-known wit. Once three of us, undergraduates still,--of, whom Kittredge was one and I another-were accused of doing something required "a good deal of gall." Whereupon said "Kitty,"-"All Gaul is divided into three parts." I have often been credited with this coruscating retort...