Word: uttered
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...time workers' benefits with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers; its turning a deaf ear to the students who petitioned for the tenure of Associate Professor of History Ellen Fitzpatrick; its indignation at the mere suggestion of reforming the Administration's archaic and punitive disciplinary board; its utter disregard of numerous outspoken student, Faculty and community requests that it permit students to retain control of Phillips Brooks House...
...have a right to utter the words that blacks are inferior [but there is] something bigger than rights, called standards of conduct, which say that you cannot say that," Phillips said...
...problem is particularly sticky for Lake, who as NSC director is supposed to have known about potential diplomatic embarrassments and can never utter the words "I was out of the loop." But that is essentially Lake's defense. His team contends that Harold Ickes and Doug Sosnik, who ran the White House political operation, rarely asked the NSC to do background checks on the foreigners coming to the White House for some of the 81 coffees the President had last year with donors and backers. In previous administrations, a rigorous NSC investigation greeted every foreigner who came to the White...
...mountain. Now, "mountain-viewing" is local slang for dying. That sounds real. And so does the quotation Leithauser slyly invents for Herman Melville, "on his sole North Atlantic whaling voyage" in 1850: Freeland, the great writer deplored, was "a humble acme in the planet's perennial pursuit of utter desolation...
...hoped. With the Presidential Medal of Freedom around his neck, Dole stood Friday in the White House he'd failed to claim and said: "I, Robert J. Dole ... " As East Room erupted in laughter, Dole continued dryly: " ... do solemnly swear. Uh, wrong speech." Just three days before Clinton will utter that same oath, he awarded his election opponent the nation's highest civilian honor. Dole was clearly moved when Clinton said: "Son of the soil, citizen, soldier and legislator, Bob Dole understands the American people, their struggles, their triumphs and their dreams." Choking back tears, Dole said "I will cherish...