Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farce becomes crude. Devastating in his ability to talk on both sides of the question and to cap or sink his own arguments, Shaw damps us because he talks his way back to the status quo, and leaves the impression that all he has had to say has only verbal importance. We are back where we started...
Joseph Stalin did not bother to make a speech in answer to Harry Truman's call for a halt to Russia's bullyboy tactics. The Soviet dictator let his leading historian Eugene Tarle do the verbal hatchet work...
...Merry-Go-Round brushes Harry Truman off as little more than "a spear carrier from the mob scene," and deplores his "government by crony." Yet the G.O.P., say Allen & Shannon, is worse-a "Dark Age Brigade" full of "Piltdown men" and "mental Charley horses" with "intellectual constipation, verbal diarrhea and varicose egotism...
...Verbal Missiles. Caught in the middle, a harassed Pentagon spokesman quickly denied that 1) Washington had ordered a ban on beer, and 2) that it had ordered the ban to be lifted. It was, he said, all up to commanders in the field...
...these verbal missiles arched across the Pacific, Army authorities in Tokyo finally hit on an uneasy compromise. The free-beer issue was restored with the provision that it would henceforth be purchased by post-exchange profits for front-line troops only, that rear-echelon servicemen would have to buy their own, and that soda pop would be offered to those who want...