Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Libraries, the Friends of the Monroe County Library, and the Miami Herald decided to hold one of their book-and-author events in Key West. The local luminaries gladly volunteered to divulge an opinion or two. The quiet little chat over coffee cups that was planned turned into a verbal extravaganza after a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., travel agency put together a package tour. "It ended up an incredible thing," says Travel Agent Judy Twyford. "People don't want to just sit by the pool any more, they want to get together and talk. This is one of the best...
...more in purchasing power than if tax and inflation rates were still at the 1980 levels." Mindful of the fairness issue, he wrote into his text the words, "progress helps everyone." But he read the line as "Congress helps everyone," one of an unusual number of verbal flubs. Reagan recovered nimbly from this one. He corrected himself, then said benignly, "Congress does too," to laughter and applause...
...Continent's recession has dragged on, many West Europeans have begun looking for scapegoats and have found them among their minorities. Suddenly the Turks, Pakistanis and Algerians are no longer individuals: they are Kana-ken, nig-nogs and bougnouls. Occasionally the prejudice goes from verbal violence to physical: a gang attack, an anonymous bullet, a bomb thrown from a passing car. More often racism comes at arm's length: random insults, hostile stares, racial stereotypes held up as universal truths. "Yes, I suppose I'm prejudiced," says a West London matron. "People my age had nothing...
...fact, the disparities were as superficial as a scrim. Both men were driven by adoring, voracious mothers. Both could tell a joke or draw a tear with a melodic or verbal phrase. And both concentrated on what Composer Alec Wilder called "the bone-deep fatigue of urban gaiety." In either case, that last word applied in its ancient and current sense...
...UNESCO's pronouncements "incompetent" because they are hostile to the West? And wouldn't truly a unique "Western case" be inherently biased? On the same New York Times opinion page a few days later in December, William Safire, who usually is known for a bit more intellectual and verbal adoptness, offers that UNESCO is a "three star Paris restaurant masquerading as an international organization." And, finally, a Washington Post editorial: UNESCO "got hijacked by a Third World Communist collective seemingly interested less in running good programs than in engaging in ideological disputation and living the high life...