Word: slurs
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...year later, on a cool, grey day, the 35th President of the United States sat at his desk in the oval office of the White House and discussed the same subject. "This job is interesting," he said in that combination of Irish slur and broad Bostonese that has become immediately identifiable on all the world's radios, "but the possibilities for trouble are unlimited. It represents a chance to exercise your judgment on matters of importance. It takes a lot of thought and effort. It's been a tough first year, but then they're all going...
...brash young public relations man to the prosperous middle-aged salesman. "I actually feel I can carry on a deeper conversation with my two-year-old daughter than I can with you." Hal may have felt like lashing out at his young critic, but instead he accepted the slur as if he had merely been done a candid favor. He had to, because both men were taking part in a Sensitivity Training Workshop, one of the fastest-spreading of U.S. management's many devices for putting a keen edge on executives...
...registration this term, I was most graciously presented with a copy of your "Registration Issue." Since I am interested in all aspects of Life at Harvard, I carefully read the paper only to find a very biting slur on my former institution. surely, Brooklyn College deserves a better fate than being referred to as a home of predatory females or more specifically "Date-seeking chicks...
...sounds that reverberated through Moscow's Teatr Estrady last week seemed strangely out of place in the drab, disciplined Soviet capital: the salivating slur of a trombone, the mellow wail of a muted trumpet, the throaty murmur of a saxophone and the staccato thunder of drums. U.S. tourists even thought they could identify the nearly indistinguishable melody: Lullaby of Birdland. They were right. At picnics and Komsomol dances, in cabarets and conservatories, the Soviet Union is swinging to the sound of jazz...
...today the undertakers' take-over from clergymen seems almost complete- and more profitable than ever. So reports the Roman Catholic magazine Jubilee in an article showing that anywhere in the U.S., a family can dispose of its dead in an atmosphere of cheery and costly flimflam, designed to slur over the solemn fact that once brought man into the presence...