Word: retorting
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...students themselves, however, retort that accessibility, not some high-minded definition of "proper scholarship," is the goal...
...helping opponents mobilize against MERCO and build support for a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general to force the EPA to require an environmental-impa ct statement from MERCO. "We're trading a few short-term jobs for our way of life," argues antisludge organizer Linda Lynch. Supporters retort that the sludge will eventually revitalize depleted rangelands. Exxon station owner Andy Virdell, who has seen other ventures die in the hardscrabble desert, is ecstatic. "Sure, we'd rather have an electronics plant here," he says, "but in this economy we have to be thankful for anything...
...habits, they elected a President who was widely known to have had an illegitimate child. As a candidate, Grover Cleveland was mocked with the chant "Ma, Ma, where's my pa? Gone to the White House. Ha, ha, ha." Yet Cleveland won the White House, occasioning his supporters' memorable retort...
...repressed homosexual producer and fiance, starts out a little slow but soon eases into his character. Strutting about the stage, he makes great strides to assert his masculinity, making fun of "faggot beer" while defending the presence of the woman on the St. Pauli Girl bottle with the clever retort, "Yeah, but she's a whore." As the plot thickens and Peter is able to coerce him into sex, he reluctantly begins to admit that he enjoys it, and his faltering machismo is the source of much laughter...
Such performances lead opponents to call Clinton "Slick Willie." In the partisan opinion of Sheffield Nelson, who lost the 1990 gubernatorial race to Clinton, "He'll be what the people want him to be. He'll do or say what it will take to get elected." Supporters retort that Clinton has merely learned the arts of building coalitions and crafting compromises between opposing views, as a Governor -- or President -- must. True, but a President also should be tough enough to knock heads together on occasion, and Clinton has given little evidence of that ability...