Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...match perhaps, with its properly defined hero and villain. The assumption of Hoffa's guilt sets the tone of the unending fight. This month Teamster officials charged that certified bonding agents throughout the nation had been ordered not to serve Teamster personnel, and the Justice Department felt it could retort: "We never comment on anything Mr. Hoffa...
...Labor's ranks demoralized by Leader Hugh Gaitskell's death, Macmillan trounced a no-confidence vote 337-234. Then, in a supreme gesture of self-confidence, Harold Macmillan fielded an Opposition question about the possibility of "the door being reopened to entry into Europe" with the bland retort: "Does the honorable Member mean in this Parliament, or in the next Administration which I hope to form...
...world has become a momentous family feud that threatens to split the world Communist movement. Last week the rift was there for all to see, laid out in plain words in Mao Tse-tung's Red Flag and People's Daily, followed by a paragraph-by-paragraph retort in Khrushchev's Pravda...
...point was eloquently voiced in the United Nations by Nationalist China's Representative Liu Chieh, in a retort to Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin. "Weapons," said Liu, "cannot be intrinsically differentiated into good ones and bad ones, but the man who carries the weapons can be easily differentiated. A revolver in the hands of a gangster is not the same thing as a revolver in the top drawrer of a peaceful citizen. Whether a person is a gangster or a peaceful citizen depends on his record. And what a criminal record international Communism has written for itself in recent years...
Dempsey cites a string of achievements in education, job retraining, highways, and attracting nuclear research industries, calls his opponent's charges "Alsop's Fables." Alsop's retort: fabled Fabler Aesop was put to death by the citizens of Delphi for refusing to distribute money to them -because he found them grasping and greedy...