Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proper Retort. In Manhattan's Grand Central induction center, a psychiatrist saw his opportunity, eagerly asked draftee Henry Proper, peacetime automobile salesman, if he could find him a good used car. Replied Proper: "Are you crazy...
Communists in Chungking retort that they: 1) cannot dissolve their armies and submit to Kuomintang military, civil and economic control without a guarantee of their survival as a political party; 2) fight the Japs wherever and whenever possible; 3) live under constant threat from 23 of the best of China's 113 Central Armies plus 45 others in reserve...
...former editor of the London Mercury: "The Reverend Gentleman seems to think that stones are stones and St. Peter's but an organized quarry instead of a crystallization of the human spirit, building ad majorem Dei gloriam. But even in quarries men lose their lives. . . ." The most telling retort was written by one David Naylor: "May I enquire if any of the gentlemen so deeply concerned over the ancient monuments of Rome have an only son whom they are prepared to sacrifice on the altar of St. Peter's? If not, may I then ask them to moderate...
...retort: 1) After the war, the little 2,500-horse-power reciprocating engines of the Liberty ships can be pulled out, powerful turbines and gears installed, speed thus raised to 15 knots. The Liberty will then be good enough to compete with the battered merchant marine of the rest of the world...
...kicked the dog and carried on. " 'When I make up my mind to deliver spuds,' he remarked afterward to Chapman, 'I have no intention of letting a pomme de terre me.' Chapman took no notice." The Retort Discourteous. O'Nolan is in a class by himself in adapting outworn instruments to his journalistic purpose...