Word: retorting
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...that the Star should drop its emphasis on hard news in favor of a magazine-style format, with lots of light, pictorial features and long interpretive reports on issues such as the labor movement in the auto industry. To critics who wanted more traditional "news," Isaacs had a standard retort: "Who says it's a newspaper?" Readers, it seemed, asked the same question, and not rhetorically. The Star, which held a small circulation lead over the Tribune when Isaacs came, was 65,000 behind when it ceased operations...
...utilities contend that the hikes are necessary to cover the rising costs of fuel, labor and materials. Critics retort that gross mismanagement is the real problem. Both utilities committed themselves in the late 1970s to buy oil under long-term contracts at prices far higher than those now prevailing. Conservation has cut electrical consumption, but the companies must still incur tens of millions of dollars in expenses to dispose of oil that they are obligated to buy but do not now need...
...Roosevelt's critics could retort that even after four years of expensive trial and error, there were still 10 million unemployed and no real recovery in sight. The Republican nominee, Governor Landon of Kansas, seemed at the time a strong candidate against the fraying New Dealers; even some conservative Democrats thought they must combat what they considered an ominous drift toward the left. (Former Presidential Nominee Al Smith accused the New Dealers of trying "to disguise themselves as Karl Marx or Lenin or any of the rest of that bunch...
...reason for Gorsuch's unpopularity within EPA and also on Capitol Hill is her brusque, no-nonsense manner. She keeps a strict time limit on all appointments. When asked an inconvenient question, she is apt to retort that any answer would be "the rankest kind of speculation." Yet, in a prideful display of prodigious homework, she lectures listeners in mind-numbing detail on EPA programs about which she knew almost nothing until her appointment. Though she has been in the midst of a divorce since before she went to Washington and serves as a devoted single parent to Sons...
...with TIME'S Frank Melville in 1978, Mountbatten had given a version of the encounter that tallied with the account in Cudlipp's book. Said Mountbatten: "Cecil King came to see me, at his own request, and said would I take over the country, to which my retort was to kick him out. I asked Mr. King to leave, and he left with Cudlipp 20 seconds after Zuckerman...