Word: retorting
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...warned that certain White House aides were trying to "mortally wound" the President by interfering with the FBI and the CIA (TIME Aug. 13). To this astonishing assertion, Nixon merely replied: "Pat, you just continue to conduct your aggressive and thorough investigation." Had Gray been surprised by this curious retort? "Frankly," he said, "I expected the President to ask me some questions." Indeed, he waited for two weeks to answer the questions that were never asked, and then, when he heard nothing further from the President, he concluded that he had been an "alarmist...
...those questioned regard Japan as "an unfriendly country." On the cover of Vision, a European business monthly, the Japanese businessman was depicted as a belligerent, muscle-flexing superman. German executives do not like it that Japanese salaries are generally 10% to 30% higher than their own. The Japanese politely retort that their success is merited because they work harder to sell to Europeans than Europeans do to sell to them...
That, said Ervin, was an attempt "to practice a deception on the general public as to the amount of honor that was paid to the Vice President." Agreeing, Stans replied: "I am not sure this is the first time that has happened in American politics." That led Ervin to retort solemnly: "You know, there has been murder and larceny in every generation, but that hasn't made murder meritorious or larceny legal...
...Nixon stomped off the political stage like an undisciplined child, fuming "You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore." Ten years later, in the heat of the Watergate scandal exposed by the press, anyone might have predicted what turned out to be Nixon's snide retort: "We have had our differences in the past and I hope you give me hell everytime you think I'm wrong." Give him a teething ring or a dog biscuit to munch on (like an unprecedented landscape victory, and Nixon's a bundle of saccharine assisinity. But deprive of what he wants...
...Angry Retort. A few hectic hours later, the Quai d'Orsay dismissed the charge, insisting that Eban had failed to furnish "any document or any proof." The Israelis angrily retorted that Eban had given Hure "exact, precise, detailed and well-founded information," and awaited a formal reply. At week's end the French had yet to make any further comment...