Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon found that budget-conscious Ike had the moderate-minded U.S. behind him, and beat a dignified retreat. When Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler castigated Johnson for being too cautious and conservative, the Senate Democrats rose up, almost to a man, to defend Johnson, and gave Butler the retort proper: mind your own business. As a good legislator, Johnson believes in taking a fatherly interest in the political and personal welfare of every one of his Democratic colleagues. If a fellow Senator is sick, Johnson demands a daily report-three or more a day, if the illness is serious...
...prisoners, but otherwise told Hoess that he would have to make do with what he had. Somehow, Hoess did-and he is as methodically informative as a suburbanite fighting crab grass as he discusses the relative merits of poison gasses and the superiority of threeretort crematory ovens to four-retort ovens. Hoess remembers with almost nostalgic pride a date of peak efficiency when the camp gassed and cremated "rather more than 9,000" in a 24-hour period...
Conventional teachers of elementary physics deplore the Lambe-Fowler approach, pointing out that the physics needed in most kinds of engineering is only remotely concerned with relativity or particles. The progressives retort that their students are enlivened by touching the inner realities that make the universe tick...
...confute him by showing that lecture courses are just supplementary to the studies--usually carried on with younger faculty members--which come under the general classification of tutorial work. If this were true--it is not, but perhaps should be--the Innocent would be ready again to retort: too many instructors and assistant professors neglect tutorial work for the sake of knocking out tomes, because they know quite well the accounting process of the usual ad hoc committee. Worse still, the larger half of the tutorial and sections program has to depend on that unique creature, the teaching fellow...
...whether we should get 50,000 housing units or make a stand on 100,000 units and get nothing, then I'm for 50,000 units." To Morse, Humphrey's vote for the Landrum-Griffin labor reform bill was nothing less than heresy. But Humphrey has a retort proper: "You don't legislate in a vacuum. I was convinced that if we did not pass that labor bill we would have got a worse one next year." As a pragmatic politician, says Humphrey, "you've got to make small adjustments...