Word: utters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courtroom, he is in complete control. He has a computer memory for the remotest dates and details; his material is so well organized that documents flash into his hands like a magician's rabbits. His hair wavy, his calm buttoned down, he cross-examines hostile witnesses with utter courtesy; he seems never to be trying to trip them up, only to help the jury get things straight. He shuns anger: "It's not a useful emotion." Yet in summing up, he pulls all emotional stops: his rhetoric sweeps and soars. Williams is inevitably compared with F. Lee Bailey...
...Sermon on the Mount obviously necessitated a pacifist position. Writing against the Christians some time between 170 and 180, the Roman philosopher Celsus made the point that "if all men were to do the same as you, there would be nothing to prevent the king from being left in utter solitude and desertion, and the forces of empire would fall into the hands of the wildest and most lawless barbarians." But Christians ceased to be pacifist when the Emperor Constantine turned Christianity from a fringe sect into the Establishment. It now behooved the church to defend the Christian empire...
...stay at an English school to which his parents had sent him. He brutally seduces the only person who had shown him affection-Nora, the headmaster's wife-and records her suicide by drowning in the Medway. During the whole time at this school, Ferdinand refuses to utter a single word but raves to himself ferociously: "Speak? Speak? About what? . . . Christ! and all their stinking rottenness, and my buddies and the fags and the floozies and all their lowdown tricks...
...Utter Desolation. The correspondent is Harrison Salisbury, 58, a prestigious and enterprising reporter for the New York Times for 17 years and now one of its assistant managing editors. Last spring and summer, Salisbury, who was based in Moscow for five years, traveled around the periphery of Red China, gathering material for a series of stories and at the same time sounding out Communist diplomats about his chances of getting into North Viet Nam. For months he heard nothing. Then, in the middle of last month's furor over charges that the U.S. had bombed civilian sections of Hanoi...
...described "block after block of utter desolation" in residential districts. U.S. planes, concluded Salisbury, "are dropping an enormous weight of explosives on purely civilian targets"-and, in Hanoi's view, they are doing it "deliberately...