Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tough-minded A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany was unimpressed. In his prompt retort to the Galveston resolutions, Meany made it clear that the united labor movement would go ahead and pass judgment on Beck & Co. whether they showed up to defend themselves or not. "The only accuser of Mr. Beck," said Meany, "will be Mr. Beck-his own testimony, his lack of testimony, and the record...
...over Europe. Communists have made great play with their claim of having been the greatest anti-fascist and resistance fighters of them all. Faced with evidence that they had murdered, betrayed or eliminated non- Communist leaders, Communists retort that their critics are trying to impugn the glory of the resistance, and, besides, it was wartime, spies were everywhere, and things were confused...
...time when there were troubles to be met. Though he was no opportunist, though he said what he thought whenever it was useful, he made few enemies. Many stood in awe of him because of his deft and pungent tongue, but apt as he was in attack or retort, Sherwood was readier still to give mercy, happier to be tolerant than to be angry...
...Noel Willman) can only snarl the lame retort: "You choose to jest." Then he sounds the charge. Maces mash and broadswords boing. In the end French heads are rolling about the landscape like mothballs at a spring cleaning, while Errol proves, as always, a beryl in peril. He loses nothing but his mustache-but then, what is Errol Flynn without his mustache? As he comes up for the final clinch with the heroine (Joanne Dru), he looks as sapless as Samson on the morning after his lawn was mowed. Or maybe it is only that Errol, at 46, is getting...
...each other in an expensive jet air-power race. Last year the Peruvians asked the U.S. to sell them twelve F-86 Sabre-jet fighters. During the past ten months, Ecuador got twelve Meteor fighters and six Canberra twin-jet medium bombers from Britain. Last week came the Peruvian retort: the government announced that it had signed up for 20 of Britain's late-model Hawker Hunters...