Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...representative on the U.N. Security Council, lost patience with Russia's Jacob Malik. The Russian representative, snapped Dr. Tsiang one day last week, "spends much of his superabundant energy in trying to prove to us that black is white and that white is black." Malik's retort made spectators grin: Tsiang's reference to black & white was "an insult to 14 million Negroes in the U.S." He added heavily: "White men, too, may have a black conscience and a black soul...
...were the same lie-studded ones he had delivered before. Three times he spoke lengthily, then when he sought the floor for a fourth time, Jebb snapped: "I suppose you could go on making your arguments forever." Malik said he needed only "one sentence" this time. Jebb's retort was rapier-quick: "I would be delighted to hear a speech of one sentence from the Soviet Union representative." The audience laughed and cheered. Malik flushed. Jebb let the noise linger 45 seconds before he gaveled for silence...
...McCarthy was not on the Senate floor when Chavez spoke, but, never at a loss for words, he soon answered: "Poor Dennis Chavez" was a "dupe" in an Administration plot. An angrier retort came from the Very Rev. Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., president of Fordham University, where Budenz teaches economics. Senator Chavez, said Father McGinley, had been guilty of slander, hypocrisy, cowardliness and "personal vilification . . . even lower than that reached in the columns of the Daily Worker." Budenz had Fordham's "full confidence . . . The Senator had the effrontery, moreover, to pose as a Catholic while publicly enacting this vicious...
Akahata, Tokyo's Communist newspaper, denounced the circulation of Shiga's memo as "subversive." At first Shiga declined to make a public retort. "Intraparty affairs," he said, "should be solved within the party." Last week Akahata repeated and amplified its reprimand; it also printed a terse apology from No. 3. Then, within their central committee, the comrades rehashed the issue in hot & heavy argument. The solution: a statement reproving Shiga but leaving him still in his influential post. Japan's lesser comrades looked on, baffled and bewildered by the complex top-level schism...
Their opponents retort that computers are mere tools that do only what they are told. Professor Aiken, a leader of the conservatives, admits that the machines show, in rudimentary form at least, all the attributes of human thinking except one: imagination. Aiken cannot define imagination, but he is sure that it exists and that no machine, however clever, is likely to have...