Word: retorting
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...first elections under the present constitution, it was promptly dubbed the "Rigged Dissolution" be cause U.S. occupation authorities were the ones who arranged it. In 1952 came the "Surprise Dissolution" that caught everyone unawares. The "You Fool Dissolution" took its name from Premier Shigeru Yoshida's angry retort to a heckler in 1953. When Premier Eisaku Sato dissolved the ninth postwar Diet last week and called for new elections to be held on Jan. 29, his move seemed destined to go down in history as the "Black Mist Dissolution"; it developed from the fog of corruption and influence-peddling...
...concern at the rising cost of living. "You ladies," he charmed, "know that if you stand in front of the asparagus counter at the supermarket these days, it's cheaper to eat money." To the charge that he is without experience in government, he has a simple, homely retort: "I don't know of anybody who was born holding public office. I am not a professional politician. The man who currently has the job has more political experience than anybody. That's why I'm running...
...person brought to my hospital where he can be put in an intensive care unit. Going to the home just wastes time." If the variety of specialists makes some people feel that their body is being treated like a diagram in a butcher's shop, U.S. doctors retort that this is only the necessary fragmentation of a science advancing too fast and grown too complex for any one man to know all there is to know. Even so, the average doctor works 60 hours a week, and one out of three works a 70-hour week...
...supersonic transport design. To the winner, that approval will be worth at least $10 billion; a decision by President Johnson is expected this year. In their lobbying efforts, Boeing people like to point out that Lockheed has never made a pure-jet commercial passenger plane; Lockheed representatives retort that Boeing has never made a supersonic plane of any sort...
...Rabanne's disks were an instant hit with the models. "It makes such a nice clatter when you move," said one. "I feel like a sexy mermaid." What happens if you sit down? "You shouldn't; they're for dancing," was Paco's prompt retort. One model tried anyway, reported: "Not bad. It sort of slips away...