Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ford's Theater, not far from Capitol Hill, a stage version of A Christmas Carol is playing this week. When a delegation of Londoners comes calling at Scrooge's office seeking alms for the poor, literature's best-known misanthrope shoots back his famous retort: Are there no prisons? No workhouses? No orphanages? On some nights the line, with its obvious echo of the latest ideas from Congress, has been bringing gasps and mutters from the crowd. In the months to come, Scrooge is a role Gingrich and his followers won't be afraid to assume. The only question...
Home-school parents retort that the socialization children experience in schools is not necessarily healthy: it may be competitive, even intimidating and violent. "I do not think that gang membership is proper social development," says Donna Nichols-White, who has home schooled her three children after having to teach herself how to write. "Whenever people mention the problem of gang membership, I mention that the common factor amongst all gang members is that they attended school at some time in their lives...
...Charles' resentment of his wife's success is familiar now. What is new is his willingness to disparage his parents. Prince Philip had a ready retort, sheathed in a brusque politesse of understatement that is totally beyond Charles: "I've never discussed private matters, and I don't think the Queen has. Very few members of the family have." So there...
...stop Saddam Hussein in Kuwait. Though North later claimed he had been misinterpreted, Vice President Al Gore lost no time in striking back at the former Iran-contra colonel, condemning his remarks as "despicable" and "unpatriotic." To which, in turn, Senate Republican leader Bob Dole felt compelled to retort,"Cheap shot...
...John Irving novel has been an occasion for intense interest and sometimes febrile arguments. Irving fans applaud his jam-packed plots, his innocent heroes (the line from Garp to Gump is not hard to draw) and his overt, Dickensian sympathy for damaged or endangered children. Critics retort that Irving's heart may be in the right place, but his head is not -- that he actually exploits for shock value the very characters whose welfare he pretends to champion...