Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sailors forget their wives, their mistresses, their children and, of course, their bank accounts for the feel of the wind and the sound of the starting gun. Everybody remembers J. P. Mor gan's haughty retort not to ask the cost of maintaining a yacht. But everybody is doing his best to make a liar out of him. The price of a relatively modest 19-ft. Lightning racer is $3,200 (more than 10,600 sold to date), and that's just the beginning. "A boat," as one Miami sailor puts it, "is a hole in the water...
...notion of disengagement from the "military industrial complex" (i.e., American society)--a clear impossibility for the vast majority of Americans, including students. Reduced to its essence, the CP's argument runs: if everyone were exempt, there would be no soldiers to fight the war. There is a Yiddish retort to such wishful thinking. It goes: "And if your grandmother were a trolley car...." And the question still remains: how do we unite Americans from different classes in a strong movement to get the U.S. our of Vietnam...
...first elections under the present constitution, it was promptly dubbed the "Rigged Dissolution" be cause U.S. occupation authorities were the ones who arranged it. In 1952 came the "Surprise Dissolution" that caught everyone unawares. The "You Fool Dissolution" took its name from Premier Shigeru Yoshida's angry retort to a heckler in 1953. When Premier Eisaku Sato dissolved the ninth postwar Diet last week and called for new elections to be held on Jan. 29, his move seemed destined to go down in history as the "Black Mist Dissolution"; it developed from the fog of corruption and influence-peddling...
...concern at the rising cost of living. "You ladies," he charmed, "know that if you stand in front of the asparagus counter at the supermarket these days, it's cheaper to eat money." To the charge that he is without experience in government, he has a simple, homely retort: "I don't know of anybody who was born holding public office. I am not a professional politician. The man who currently has the job has more political experience than anybody. That's why I'm running...
...person brought to my hospital where he can be put in an intensive care unit. Going to the home just wastes time." If the variety of specialists makes some people feel that their body is being treated like a diagram in a butcher's shop, U.S. doctors retort that this is only the necessary fragmentation of a science advancing too fast and grown too complex for any one man to know all there is to know. Even so, the average doctor works 60 hours a week, and one out of three works a 70-hour week...