Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your "tongue-in-cheek" profile of Fred Allen was marvelous. Tell me: What was Allen's retort...
Said a London cockney: "He certainly knows how to talk to common people." Said Winston Churchill (according to one report): Wallace is "a crypto-Communist -one who has not got the courage to explain the destination for which he is making."* Wallace's retort: "I am a progressive Tory...
...conference strained over discords. India's Moslem League boycotted it, but the delegates from other heavily Moslem nations ignored the League's protests over their presence.* Vietnamese delegates called Cambodians "French puppets" and drew a retort from Her Highness You Pan Tror, a stocky, swarthy Princess, that Cambodia would have nothing to do with Viet Nam. Princess You also quarreled loudly with her interpreter (the conference's many voices were translated into Asia's lingua franca-English...
Help for Henry. Big Steel's Ben Fairless' retort to the protests was: nonsense. The freight cut would, he said, be passed on directly to consumers. They would get the cheaper steel which the company had promised the West Coast when it bought Geneva. But Kaiser, thrown into a bad competitive position, was undoubtedly not interested in cheaper steel if it meant closing up Fontana. And it might mean just that when the current steel shortage is over...
...wavering, death-sick world, America can offer a path of hope, a road to sanity, a way to safety, prosperity and world peace. . . . Harassed as we are by domestic strife, some may be tempted to retort, 'physician, heal thyself.' It is true that the American way has at times failed lamentably, but when it has failed it has been because the moral and spiritual factors have been rejected or ignored. Denying God, rejecting God's way, pursuing power and abusing it ... these are the dangers threatening the peace of America, the peace of the world...