Word: orotundly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arid mountain villages and scores of swarming coastal towns, the citizens of semiautonomous Sicily quietly went to the polls and made their much-ballyhooed choice. To the confusion of just about everybody except the Sicilians, the real victor was neither Communism nor Christian Democracy. It was "Sicilianism" in the orotund person of Silvio Milazzo, president of Sicily's regional government...
...gathered for its annual conference and glumly reflecting on a dozen by-election setbacks since Suez. Chubby, puckish Viscount Hailsham, 50, only three weeks in office, delighted the delegates with his handshaking zeal, astounded them as he splashed into the ocean for early morning dips, moved them with shamelessly orotund oratory. "Britain is still recognizably a lion among nations," he roared. "I do not believe that we have been spared in a generation from so many and great dangers to go down now in a welter of little men and mean measures...
Almost 2,000,000 people in the U.S. and South Africa have already heard Roberts' orotund voice, been exposed to his high-pressure evangelism. He has conducted 20 successful crusades, set up regular programs on 223 radio and 98 TV stations throughout the U.S., gone into the publishing business with books, tracts and two magazines (total circ. 5,000,000). But his most valuable asset is his "healing" right arm, through which, he says, the power of God flows like a current of electricity...
...amazing old man of 79 spoke slowly, and his lisp was more pronounced. But the wit was as nimble as ever, and the orotund prose as incomparable. In a sly reference to his reputation as a brandy drinker, he called for a glass of water and downed it, remarking with a twinkle: "I only do it to show you that I can." Churchill hailed Eden's achievement at London as "a monument and a milestone in our march toward peaceful coexistence," paid generous tribute to the U.S. (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES), spoke again, wistfully, of his dream of coexistence with...
...Winston himself was not around to hear the Queen speak his words. He was home in bed working on a speech of his own, a far more orotund affair (see INTERNATIONAL) than the brief, ten-minute address he had given his sovereign. Both speeches reflected the same Churchillian hope: to keep the Tory government in command for its full term. "We were elected [in 1951] for a five-year period under what is called the Quinquennial Act," Churchill told the House of Commons that afternoon, rolling his tongue happily over the long, Latinate word. As outlined by the Queen...