Word: utterance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whitlam, a crowd-pleasing orator, is at his best in a fight, and in recent weeks he has been drawing his largest audiences in years. No Australian government has been subjected "to such utter cussedness and harassment," he said. If Whitlam is not inclined to duck the present face-off, neither is Fraser, particularly after picking up the public support last month of respected former Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies...
...that was at the same time skillfully structured and frighteningly immediate in its impact. The build toward the major climaxes possessed the unerring sense of direction and the searing intensity of a great horror story and the final fading away produced the desired effect of a helpless submersion in utter darkness...
...utter futility of gaining male sympathy for the plight of a raped woman was brought home to me forcefully a year ago when my one-legged sister was raped in her own kitchen by a supposed telephone repairman...
...question that remains to be answered is whether a giant corporation whose business is largely dependent on sales to the U.S. Government will be permitted to continue to act in utter contempt of the U.S. government...
...machine also injured, with the grindings of its internal gears, a sensitive and beautiful woman. Or maybe also his suggestion, that, because this woman was endowed sensually and spiritually with qualities that transcended the simple realism of, say, another citizen or soldier, she was thus somehow justified in her utter ignorance till early-1945 of what the Nazis were doing to the Jews. One is willing to accept such a moral judgement, so long as it is premised by that initial moral assertion, that, "Yes, Nazi Germany was terrib..." The Au. is a kind and trustworthy man, after...