Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kennedy also had the luxury of running an entirely positive campaign until the very last days of the race. His opponents undermined and occasionally eliminated each other throughout the spring. However, despite "Young Joe's" frequent verbal slips, they shied away from criticizing the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy...
...fifth collection of short stories, Alice Munro, 55, continues to buck the genre's fashionable trend toward miniaturization and microplots. Her characters stubbornly refuse to trudge like zombies through brief but nonetheless tedious interludes. They do not act like literary artifacts or wan verbal gestures toward ennui. They behave, instead, as if they had all the time and space imaginable to lead and ponder their complicated lives. Each of the eleven pieces in The Progress of Love seems to contain enough material for a fair-sized novel; Munro's art of compression emphasizes amplitudes rather than economies...
...around 1 p.m., the man approached the QuincyHouse gate on Plympton Street and launched hisnon-stop verbal barrage. The discourse touchedupon such diverse topics as "How to Cheat Your Wayto a Harvard Degree"--borrow a thesis fromWidener, steal its catalogue card, borrow(heavily...
...neighbor's child, as well as taking care of her husband, who has apparently had a stroke that has rendered him helpless. The contrast between Maika's helathy cheer and her husband's thin and trembling weakness portrays the conflict within the family more effectively than any verbal explanation of their condition...
...tape, a transcript of which was released byNASA on yesterday, offered no verbal evidence thatany crew members other than Smith knew anythingwas abnormal prior to his single exclamation 73seconds after launch--the very second that groundcontrollers lost all communication with the craft...