Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone complains that his show is in doubtful taste, Edwards can retort by pointing to a long list of good works. On the air he has sold more than half a million dollars' worth of Government E bonds. He raised $1,639,000 for the American Heart Association and more than $3,000,000 for the March of Dimes. Of the Lillian Roth episode, he says: "The good it will do will far outweigh the thoughts that people might have against it. It's even good for kids to know that certain people can't handle liquor...
...Brahman, shocked at the idea of violating purdah, bridled: "Your father come into my caste home and take care of my wife? She had better die!" That same night, a Moslem and another high-caste Hindu called on the same errand, got the same offer, gave the same retort. Next morning, Ida heard the tom-toms beat the death march for three Indian women who had died in labor. Did she belong in India, after all? She prayed for guidance...
...Kinsey Retort...
...bitterness occurred at the Yale game in New Haven in 1940. At halftime--things weren't quite so well organized then--a group of three students rushed onto the field to present a playlet in which President Conant was represented as engaged in solitary military drill until a chemical retort was substituted for the gun he was carrying. The slogan of the group that put on the act was "Books, not Guns." Conant was not at the game, but he says now "if I had been it would have been hard to sit there. That's what I call unfair...
...Small Clique." When the Foster faction made much of the court ruling before the national committee, Atlanta Lawyer Elbert Tuttle had a sharp retort: "This lawsuit is another evidence of the conniving done by this group when it doesn't seek relief at the proper place ... If a judge in some little county of the committeemen's own state-say Clarence Brown's Ohio-should issue such a ruling, would they pay any attention to it?" Said Tucker, in his brief to the committee: "This small clique . . . simply purported to set up a series of meetings...