Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afterward as a general thing. But just before the peace of last week (see p. 75), His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom made historic haste, disclosing in a White Paper ten documents of the Czechoslovak crisis, hitherto secret. Although these did not quite tell all, for verbal encounters had been of great importance, they provided future historians with prompt and vital data, provided glimpses behind the scenes of the recent crisis...
...trend of affairs appears to demand occasional new coinage to facilitate coherent verbal exchange of ideas...
...share of the 1937 carnival was his song Netty-Netty, voted the most popular by the public, but banned on the island. On sale in the U. S., its words are allegedly unprintable, and at all but a few points effectively inaudible, or in Caribbean patois. But verbal understanding is not necessary to convince hearers that it is a saga of a rollicking Trinidad wench...
...which they held, so that no cheating could go on during the armistice. On the top of the hill, between a row of Japanese soldiers on one side and Russians on the other, the commanders met and argued from noon to 6:15 p. m. The officers reached a verbal agreement but signed no map at this parley, and the troops on each side moved back 90 yards, leaving the top of Changkufeng Hill again completely vacant...
Recent expropriations have forced Secretary of State Cordell Hull to face the question of whether the U. S. could continue to spare the rod without spoiling the neighbor. He decided on a verbal spanking, denied that it must be forcible...