Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...testimony, Hall objected. "I think that Colonel North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights that you yourself do, sir." Surprised, Cohen paused, then replied, "I understand that. I'm not entitled to immunity . . . I don't think anybody's entitled to immunity." Hall's retort: "We have our separate opinions...
Wright scrawled, in a last-minute retort to Reagan's stand against "protectionism," a reference to the Democratic push for a trade bill that threatens higher tariffs as a way to tackle the nation's trade imbalance. The Speaker insisted that the goal was reciprocity, doing unto other countries what they are doing to the U.S. The Administration's policies, he said, are ballooning the trade deficit, putting Americans out of work and making "junk metal and scrap paper" the leading exports from the Port of New York...
...raider, abruptly ended his 2 1/2- week siege of Goodyear Tire & Rubber, the Akron manufacturer, after being grilled before the House Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law in Washington. "My question is: Who the hell are you?" said Ohio Democrat John Seiberling, whose family founded Goodyear. Goldsmith's sharp retort was that he represented the "rough, tough world of competition . . . a world in which you run a business as a business and not as an institution." But the aggressive tycoon, who owned 11.5% of Goodyear's stock and had offered $4.7 billion for the whole company...
When opponents assailed him in 1982 as a carpetbagger who was running for Congress only about a year after moving to Arizona, Republican John McCain had a ready retort: "The longest place I've ever lived in my life is Hanoi." That was no exaggeration: after a peripatetic life as a Navy pilot, McCain was shot down over Viet Nam in 1967 and spent the next 5 1/2 years in a prisoner- of-war camp. He came out with two broken arms and a broken leg; he still walks with a slight limp and cannot raise his right forearm above...
...retort, Falwell told the woman that "of all the people in this room, you have the least to worry about abortion." In subsequent retellings of the story to newspapers and magazines, the reverend has described the woman as one God made just as ugly as He could and as big enough to play football for Ohio State...