Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...football community are absurd and not worthy. of comment." This statement reminded the University that the students and officials who devote their time to the Harvard football team form a close-knit community with a long and proud tradition. But insofar as it implied this case was unique, the retort was dead wrong. In the last two days it has become unmistakably clear that there is something rotten in the "football community...
Defenders of photography as a true art form retort that no work of art is possible without, to some extent, copying outside models, or without the intervention of some accident-the chance ray of light on a sitter, the stray bit of dialogue overheard in the street. The photographer uses his artistic imagination by choosing his subject, by lighting and posing it, by emphasizing some details and cutting out others. But photographers are forever haunted by the technical ease with which they can reproduce reality. Almost since photography began, they have been alternating between the "fever of reality" and cold...
Dewey's closest political associates on the national scene . . ." With a typical retort, Governor Thomas E. Dewey promptly accepted the challenge. Said he: "Apparently Wagner is trying to charge that some member of the national Administration appealed to me unsuccessfully in the interest of Joseph Fay. I always thought the boy was stupid, but never before that he was crazy. No such appeal has ever been made to me by anyone connected with the national Administration...
Moody's speech brought a sharp retort from Harry M. Moses, spokesman for the northern operators, who snapped that wage cuts are "a very unsatisfactory and unsuccessful method of meeting the problem...
...rhetoric. The leader of the Glens Falls chapter took the floor. Starting meekly, she pronounced her scorn for would government, then worked up to, "Let us turn the strength massed within this great, influential and highly esteemed organization to a constructive force for the United Nations." The retort was brief but effective. The only thing we have to fear is such a statement as has just been made...