Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alfred Duff Cooper, impeccable British Ambassador to France, gave a peccant Riviera innkeeper a nice demonstration of the retort diplomatic. The Ambassador, his Lady, and a motoring party of six friends lunched at the inn, got a bill for 16,000 francs (about $320). The Ambassador wrote his name on the bill, tucked it in an envelope addressed to the regional authority on price control, and called the headwaiter. "Would you be so kind as to send this," he murmured, arose, and departed...
...German descent, etc.) faces a cold-blooded Nazi colonel who orders the Jew to a concentration camp, gives the others the choice between trouping as Axis propagandists or being shot. Each vacillates, rationalizes, wrestles with his conscience; all, in the end, choose to die. Their decision is also a retort: by their love of democracy and hatred of oppression, Americans of diverse backgrounds do share a common ground...
...hold waverers in line, were patently annoyed at the "safe-conduct" passes dropped by Allied planes on German positions, which as a rule promise the bearer unmolested passage through the lines and decent treatment in captivity. Recently the night-flying Luftwaffe has been dropping on Allied positions the German retort, a mock pass which reads...
Vocal portions of Canada's population were unimpressed. Veterans' organizations, in particular, denounced Ottawa by letter and telegram. But the sharpest retort to the Prime Minister came from ex-Minister Ralston...
...Washington Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, without naming Fuller, took time out to retort testily that the campaign had been a "great strategic victory." The truth, more probably, is somewhere in between...