Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost intuitively, he rejects as unsuited to the times the Whig notion of the President as an errand boy for Congress or as a chief administrator. During the presidential campaign, when Barry Goldwater complained that the office was becoming too powerful, Johnson had a folksy retort to that view. "Most Americans," he said, "are not ready to trade the American eagle in for a plucked banty rooster...
Even when Johnson condescends to an indirect retort, his strictures against "the voices of extremism" raise no enthusiasm. The lack of response does not stem from disagreement with Johnson, but rather from the fact that most Americans are so overwhelmingly behind him that his philosophical differences with Goldwater seem little more than irrelevant abstractions...
...refer to my good friend from Washington as 'Maggie.' That was the name I gave to my old friend on the farm - Maggie. He was a jackass." For a moment Maggie looked as if he had just been kicked by one. Finally he came back with a retort that was, at best, second best: "The Senator keeps some gabby old hens down there too, does...
...came over the embattled Resale Price Maintenance bill, sponsored by Heath with the purpose of abolishing retail price fixing, which enables manufacturers to set the consumer price of their products. Heath argues that his measure will both encourage competition and cut consumer costs. A group of rebellious Tory backbenchers retort that small shopkeepers can only compete with chain stores by keeping their prices at the artificially high RPM levels. The backbenchers are less concerned with free enterprise and modernizing the British economy than with the votes of the 500,000 small shopkeepers who are registered Tories; many of the rebels...
...accuracy of all the atrocity stories being handed the press. One group said that it had been machine-gunned by Pakistani border guards as it tried to cross the frontier; the original claim of 200 refugees killed in the slaughter was later downgraded to two. The Pakistanis could retort indignantly that 35,000 Moslems in West Bengal had been uprooted from their homes by Indian authorities and deported to East Pakistan as treacherous spies. Even in India, that was an awful lot of spies...