Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last season in Britain, the BBC presented a program called That Was the Week That Was, a sort of U.K. News & World Retort in which a group of bright and biting youths said what they pleased about Parliament, the Crown and current affairs. It was ragged and embarrassingly sophomoric, but it had the stamp of originality, and it became a sizable milestone in British television...
Captain's Retort. In Funchal, many of the survivors bitterly accused the Lakonia's crew of cowardice, panic and incompetence in the face of the disaster. One woman charged that she found a Greek crewman looting her cabin when she went to get her life jacket, and another claimed that a sailor had made a pass at her. Undoubtedly, many of the accusations were the result of passenger terror and hysteria and the fact that few of the crew spoke English, thus causing their intentions to be misconstrued. But it was evident that the fire-fighting procedures were...
Proponents of the Weinberg technique retort that Dr. Weinberg has had a death rate of only one-half of 1% among 1,129 patients since 1947. Thus, they say, even if the cure rate for a first operation is a few percentage points lower than w:th more drastic surgery, this is more than compensated for by the lower death rate...
...your country, children are killed in a church for the sole reason that their color is different," K. snapped back. Before anyone could make the obvious retort-that murder at the Wall, unlike murder in Birmingham, is an act of the government-Khrushchev was off on something else...
...next concert (October 21), the New York Chamber Soloists will join Dunn and the Festival Orchestra to present The Musical Offering. Even at the Dunn's interpretation of this musical retort to Frederick the Great should be worth hearing. Certainly Dunn's first batch of Bach last Saturday...