Word: retorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heating oil as Americans are, and they too get deliveries from the Caribbean refineries. The Carter Administration claims that the Europeans' panicky, pay-any-price mentality has lured so much Caribbean production to the Continent that U.S. importers are no longer receiving their fair share. The Europeans retort angrily that Washington's subsidies are just pushing up prices even higher and that the U.S. is actually getting all the oil that it normally does in the first place...
Some consumer groups advocate that a one-day-a-week beef boycott be organized to resist meat increases, which amounted to 110% at an annual rate for hamburger in the past three months. But beef producers retort that this will only aggravate the long-run shortage by discouraging the building of new beef herds. One Georgia grocery-store manager reports on his customers' switching to cheaper meats: "They're not boycotting beef, they just can't afford...
...Ciardi's milder offerings reads: "Said a voice from the back of the car,/ 'Young man, I don't know who you are./ But allow me to state,/ Though it may come too late,/ I had not meant to go quite this far.' " An Asimovian retort goes: "There is something about satyriasis/ That arouses psychiatrists' biases,/ But we're both very pleased/ We're in this way diseased/ As the damsel who's waiting to try us is." Thus: Though their poetry centers on mating,/ Both men show very few signs...
...Callaghan's wage stand, even as he campaigned for the Tory candidate in the Scottish by-election. Conservative M.P. George Gardiner, a Thatcher brain-truster, last week complained that "receiving support from Ted Heath is like being measured by an undertaker." A Labor Party spokesman had a quick retort: "Perhaps the result means that rank-and-file Conservatives prefer their former leader to their present...
...solicitously waiting for him at the airport. As the leader stepped out into the 102° summer sizzle of New Delhi, Narain held out a scented handkerchief. Brushing the offer aside, Desai snapped: "You put perfume here, but you spread a bad smell about the party elsewhere." With that retort the Prime Minister triggered a crisis in his 16-month-old government that led to the resignation of two Cabinet ministers, fractured the fragile unity of the ruling Janata Party and-unwittingly-cleared the way for a possible political comeback by his predecessor, Indira Gandhi...