Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That a substantial number of his listeners can be depended upon to ignore the message is seen in the ease with which Osborne can provoke them to anger and unabashed public retort. Some nights it is hard to distinguish between the paid actors planted in the audience and the victims-the paying customers. In that respect, Osborne's title can be read as a subtle irony...
...Democrats' retort to Shultz is likely to be that a vote against extra spending is a vote for continued unemployment, which is now running at a 5.5% rate and is not expected to sink below 5% until at least next year. With the economy still far from being fully employed, many Democrats argue, there is little inflationary risk in chalking up higher deficit spending-but a good deal of job-creating gain...
...because nowhere did totality last longer than 2 min. 35.6 sec. Moreover, scientists are divided as to the value of studying eclipses. The Young Turks in the field say condescendingly that it's an old man's game, an occasion for repeating familiar experiments. The old hands retort that there is still much that can best be learned during eclipses. Even if they are repeating experiments, they are doing so with progressively more sophisticated instruments and getting more detailed results...
...have seen her, offstage as well as on, are likely to disagree. When an errant pigeon flew in her apartment window, what could she do but ask, "Any messages?" When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled hot soup down her neck, her retort was, of course, "Never darken my Dior again." Miss Lillie, in fact, has long since passed into a sort of performers' nirvana and become a model for zany aunts and dowagers. She was, the various authors have told her, the inspiration for Mary Poppins, Auntie Mame and Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit...
...Lucia di Lammermoor at Covent Garden in 1959. Otherwise the two are a study in contrasts: separate conjugations of greatness. Each has her passionate following. Ask a Sutherland admirer about Sills' voice and he might say, "Pretty, but thin." Ask a Sillsian about Sutherland and he might retort, "Beautiful, but boring." Still, all would probably agree with Conductor Thomas Schippers that "we haven't had the luxury of comparing two such singers for 50 years...