Word: retorting
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...when I responded in turn to their New-York-bagel-elitism with the retort that I once ate an excellent bagel in Toledo, Ohio--one which would have been at home in a New York City bagelry--they remained firm: "They must get the water pumped in special," they said...
...energy and the environment, but he also said, "There is nothing in the U.S. position to suggest it has a policy of inhibiting China's economic growth." Albright emphasized how important it was for China to pay a larger contribution to the U.N. Jiang broke into English to retort, "You are a rich country; we are a poor country...
...says, "So how does it feel?" This moment in Neil LaBute's In the Company of Men packs such a sick smack that at a showing at the Samuel Goldwyn Pavilion in West Los Angeles last week, a woman gasped and shook her head in disgust; another, supplying a retort for Christine, said, "I feel like cutting your cojones...
...maybe he's saying he'd rather put up with a cold snap in June than be burned, literally, at the stake in December. In which case, I have a retort for him that is snappy enough for summer...
...talents while freeing him for larger projects--like the two-year collaboration with Nelson Mandela that produced Mandela's 1994 autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. Now Stengel is back as a senior writer, traveling with the presidential candidates and taking the nation's pulse. This week's contribution: a retort to Robert Putnam's 1995 essay "Bowling Alone" called "Bowling Together." But Stengel hasn't lost his appetite for outside projects; starting this week he will be a regular political commentator on the new MSNBC Cable news network...