Word: retorting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...final summit session, as the resolutions were read. Lumumba fiddled and twitched, then rose to retort that "the incidents never would have taken place if from the first there had been a spirit of cooperation on the U.N.'s part." As if to explain away his troops' attacks on U.N. personnel, he shouted, "We are obsessed with the idea of immediately entering Katanga and liberating our brothers!" Then, waving a wad of yellow "membership cards" in a manner reminiscent of the late Joe McCarthy, he charged that the Belgians had formed a private army to aid Moise Tshombe...
...President's optimism drew an edgy retort from United Steelworkers' President Dave McDonald. "I would say," said McDonald, "that the President is being illadvised. With 135,000 members of our union unemployed and 300,000 more working part-time, there is the possibility of a real recession developing in our country"-and even a "full-fledged depression" by January...
...sharp retort, Mboya's American associates say that only two or three of this year's batch of 200 Kenya students in the U.S. dropped out-and even they had gained from going to school in the U.S. Some are also swapping campuses: Washington A.J. Okumu, who began at Iowa Wesleyan, now has a two-year scholarship at Harvard. What counts, says Mboya's men, is that Africans need higher education at all levels-and that the British fail to provide enough...
Whose Play? Gromyko managed a game smile, then recovered to retort: "I should like to ask from what play all this has been taken, and when that play is going to be performed." Replied Lodge: "It is not out of any play ... I produced that to show the thoroughness of Soviet espionage." It was all faintly funny, and Basile Vitsaxis, the Greek delegate...
...soon found that budget-conscious Ike had the moderate-minded U.S. behind him, and beat a dignified retreat. When Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler castigated Johnson for being too cautious and conservative, the Senate Democrats rose up, almost to a man, to defend Johnson, and gave Butler the retort proper: mind your own business. As a good legislator, Johnson believes in taking a fatherly interest in the political and personal welfare of every one of his Democratic colleagues. If a fellow Senator is sick, Johnson demands a daily report-three or more a day, if the illness is serious...