Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite such a record, the U.S. earned small thanks in Afro-Asian countries. Why does it find itself portrayed, by such disparate men as Nasser and Nehru, as a covert aider and abettor of imperialism? Diehard Colonel Blimps-British, French and American-retort that such "ingratitude" simply proves the folly of "appeasing" the Afro-Asian world. The real answers are more complicated...
...popularity sparks. Riding in from Will Rogers Field in the presidential Lincoln, he stood like a campaigner with hands aloft before sign-carrying crowds ("We Liked Ike in '56. We Like Him Today"). That night at the Municipal Auditorium, he brought down the rafters with his retort to Khrushchev's threat that Russia would "bury" the West. Snapped Ike: "Oh yeah...
Director Alexander Mackendrick, who also had a hand in writing the script, is a master of nuances with the camera and in picking English types with an air of reality-harried bureaucrats, laboratory assistants who help themselves to a wee drop from a retort now and then, and other pungent touches. Particularly amusing is the chemical apparatus that serves as a running gag throughout the film. Also sprightly is Benjamin Frenkel's music...
...Most frequently advanced theory: heat from the priest's hands, or from unaccustomed light and motion, melts a bloodlike substance with a very low melting point (one scientist claimed to have duplicated the effect with a misuse of chocolate powder and milk serum). Partisans of San Gennaro retort that 1) temperature tests refute the heat theory; 2) the liquefaction has sometimes taken place without the container's being touched...
...tried to tell them about it, but they didn't believe me," he said. "'That could not be so,' was the normal retort. 'We know that only criminals, Fascists, and counter-revolutionaries fought, and that the Hungarian government asked our government to come in and help them...