Word: retorting
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Apparently some things have not changed in 450 years. In "Whose Flu?" you report that the French call the current epidemic la grippe Italienne, while Italians retort by calling it influenza Francese [TIME...
...Retort Prosaic. A reserved man, full of the knowledge that any Washington official has to dodge his share of flying tomahawks, Forrestal made little effort to counter the attacks. Goaded, he finally prepared a long, prosaic letter to send Congressmen who received anxious and puzzled inquiries from radio listeners...
Time Magazine is a denial of the stock retort of editors that you can't give the information behind the bare facts within limited space, Lyons said...
Eleanor Roosevelt, who had dismissed the Soviet constitution as merely "of pure propaganda significance," got a lofty consider-the-source retort from Izvestia: "Can a fly eclipse...
...wildcats, who have been making money, plausibly retort that without the cheap "air coach" rates most of their passengers would have gone by train or bus. Said strapping (6 ft. 3½ in.), cocksure Stan Weiss, president of wildcat Standard Air Lines: "The airlines are afraid of us, not because we are taking money away from them, but because the public and the Government now have something to measure them...