Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talking about deliberate cruelty, even in its more subtle forms. What I am talking about, of course, is excess. I get the impression that some people have spent so much time in the trenches of verbal warfare that they have lost sight of the enemy...
...part of that crowd at 4:00 p.m. last Monday, February 11.1 was walking back from class. A 16-year-old boy in a red zipper jacket walked by me and spat on my shoe. I made a verbal note on his carelessness, and suddenly from right around me, three of his fellows, two of them 20 years old and in black leather jackets, the third, a bit younger and quite fat, jumped on me. One of them picked up a big rock and attempted to hit me with it. Someone held my arms behind my back while...
...debate began last week with a verbal explosion touched off by--who else?--the Administration's self-appointed sayer-out-loud of the politically unthinkable: Budget Director David Stockman. At a Senate Budget Committee hearing, he was asked what relief the Administration was willing to extend to farmers who are unable to repay their loans. His reply: "For the life of me, I cannot figure out why the taxpayers of this country have the responsibility to go in and refinance bad debt that was willingly incurred by consenting adults who went out and bought farmland when the price was going...
...name (in Russian, ya, in Greek, oula, in Irish, een) so as to express fond feelings. Psychologists might suggest that the purpose of these diminutions is to assert the superiority of lover to loved one ("my pet"), but the effect diminishes all parties. We have created these words as verbal comforters, warm safety zones, wherein anyone, no matter how high and mighty, is free to sound like a nitwit...
...could be adjusted to fit the severity of the crime. Since there is a $2 profit limit those making $2.10 would suffer a vigorous verbal rebuke. Those scalpers making a profit of $2.50 would be stripped, smeared in honey, and the with Harvard Food Service. Those scalpers making a percent of $200 would become the involuntary donors of rejected what organs...