Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these are your final terms, we might as well go back to the Plaine des Jarres." Boun Oum snapped: "There is no need to have a three princes' meeting. I never want to hear about a three princes' meeting again." Souphanouvong got in a proletarian retort: "It's not my fault I'm a prince. I was born a prince, and I have to live with it." At a press conference, Boun Oum said: "I've told Prince Souvanna Phouma this afternoon that he had neither the confidence of the people nor of the elite...
...close to a West Berlin throng was grabbed, hauled over the line and savagely beaten. Realizing that things were nearing flash point, West Berlin police slowly forced their own people a half-mile away from the sector border. As they backed off. the West Berliners, in one final retort before they were out of earshot, cried "Hang Ulbricht! Hang Ulbricht...
...Western Retort. The three Western allies were standing firm in the determination to keep Berlin free. In a televised address, French President Charles de Gaulle warned that the Russians were trying "to settle unilaterally the fate of Berlin by jeopardizing the communications . . . and the position of the American, British and French troops there . . . I proclaim once again that there is no chance of this being accepted." If Nikita Khrushchev really wants peace, declared De Gaulle, he will not get it "by making offstage thunder" to frighten the world...
Nebraskans were quick to retort. "Nebraska has some of the finest schools in the nation," said State Education Commissioner Freeman Decker. Sorensen's speech was "the most disparaging, untrue statement that I've ever heard," said Mrs. Fred Walker, chairman of the education committee of the Omaha chapter of the American Association of University Women. "It's extremely bad for a Nebraskan to come into his own state, without figures and statistics, to make such a statement...
...ships. The long-term result, the ship owners argue, could only be that more of the world's ships and shipping business would pass into foreign hands, leaving the U.S. with out even a flag-of-convenience merchant fleet to use in case of war. The unions retort that such ships might well be of little value in an emergency because some of the crewmen are "unqualified," and their loyalty to the U.S. is questionable...