Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mordant Retort. In Catanzaro, Italy, Carmelo Buongiorno, a Communist, was sentenced to four years in prison for ending a political argument by biting off his opponent's nose...
Unfortunately, Cocteau makes about a half-hour too much of a good thing-and few things pall like a dream that cannot be shaken off. Cocteau's moody retort to this criticism is that there's just no dream to shake off: "It's a realistic film in an unreal world...
...Retort Discourteous. What sparked the Brazil-Soviet break was a rude affront to touchy national honor. Last fortnight Moscow's Izvestia said, in a generally churlish editorial on Brazil, that President Eurico Caspar Dutra was "surprisingly colorless even for a country where the generals are made, not on the battlefield, but on coffee plantations." The Brazilian Army fumed. A Foreign Office demand for an apology went unanswered. Last week the Brazilian Ambassador in Moscow was instructed to tell the Kremlin that 2½ years of edgy fraternity (but no trade) were all over...
...friend of Howard Hughes and a friend of mine." Hugh Fulton, said Brewster, suggested that the investigation might turn out to be a hot potato for the Senator. That, said Brewster, incensed him so much that he called in his stenographer and had her take down his scorching retort in Fulton's presence...
...speech prepared for delivery in New York this week, Republican Adviser John Foster Dulles largely echoed Secretary Marshall's conclusions. He added a new retort to an old accusation: "The positions we took will show the world that we have ideas and ideals and not merely dollars...