Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Women may well retort that the men should clean up their act, but it would be a tragedy if women cannot avoid mistakes and exploit the opportunity that lies before them. The revolution in women's athletics is a full, running tide, bringing with it a sea change?not just in activities, but in attitudes as well. Of sport and its role in preparing both sexes for adult life, Harvard Sociologist David Riesman says: "The road to the board room leads through the locker room." He explains that American business has been "socialized" by sport. "Teamwork provides us with...
...incessantly frustrated emotions in a barren provincial outpost of non-civilization, this particular cast stirs up only a tempest in a samovar. Vanya should be compacted of anguish; Hutt is merely consumed by pique. When he shoots at Serebriakov and misses him twice, one hears only the toy pistol retort of a toyed-with emotion...
Asimov, when confronted with the deluge of verses he had caused to descend on us, composed a somewhat conciliatory retort...
Finally, there are safety worries. A report by the General Accounting Office due for publication in May takes a dim view of locating LNG terminals in highly populated areas, because of the possibility that leaking liquid might vaporize, ignite and form a deadly fireball. Gasmen retort that no one has ever seen such a fireball. John Cabot, chairman of Distrigas, scoffs that a catastrophe is "a lurid image in search of a believable scenario." Whatever their ultimate volume, though, LNG imports are sure to rise; they constitute a supplemental form of energy that the U.S. simply cannot spurn...
...advice. Conservatives like Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, contend that the Federal Reserve should concentrate on moderating the growth of money supply and let interest rates go wherever the market takes them. Liberal economists like Arthur Okun of the Brookings Institution retort that the Fed should concentrate on holding down business borrowing costs and not worry so much about money-supply targets...