Word: blurting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign's savage exchanges stem in great part from Dilworth's proven ability to demoralize an opponent on the stump and bury him in a bluster of verbiage. Scranton simply means to stay cool, let Dilworth blurt himself into a fatal political blunder. In 1958 Dilworth made just such an error when he advocated the admission of Red China into the United Nations-an issue that had nothing to do with the Democratic gubernatorial nomination he was then seeking. (He has since changed his mind...
...hero is first seen as a hotheaded and rather surly 17-year-old who is already the favorite apprentice of the local master painter in Leyden and is conceited enough to blurt: "Either I am a second Michelangelo or I'm an ass!" What follows is the detailed story of his success (when he wins his first noble patron), his failure (when his celebrated Night Watch insults prominent members of the local militia, whose faces he partially hid in the background), and his Job-like sufferings. One by one, father, mother, crippled brother and spinster sister go to their...
...indeed, even apart from the slangy horrors of the final lines, this is not poetry at all, but a very abrupt, unmelodious and quite ugly species of prose. Perhaps this is the prayer best suited to the twentieth century, a prayer that harried man can blurt between mouthfuls of morning coffee...
...negotiating to build missile bases in France. Italy and Pakistan. "I haven't been hiding from anyone," said Hal Hayes. "Everybody is going to get paid. As of tonight, we've written $40 million worth of checks." At one point Hayes stopped reading his press handout to blurt to reporters, "Boy, I sure didn't write this myself." Then he went off to a Hollywood nightclub. Later, he was heard muttering, "I'm ruined, a ruined man"-and collapsed from what his secretary described as exhaustion and intoxication...
...police its own house, he argues, has helped change the white collar workers' attitude toward stealing from the boss, especially when the boss is not above thieving. Jaspan cites the case of a young clerk who, after several sleepless nights, finally approached his boss, a credit manager, to blurt out a confession of petty stealing. The clerk was told to forget all about it. "You see," explained the manager, "this department just can't afford a scandal. I've been embezzling for years myself. We're in this thing together." The clerk was later caught...