Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Loose talk about Reaganomics brings a verbal thrashing from the President...
...press conference and announced that he had offered the President his resignation but that Reagan had refused it. With uncharacteristic humility, the budget director apologized publicly for "my poor judgment," "loose talk," "careless rambling" and use of a "rotten, horrible, unfortunate metaphor." Reagan, he said, had given him a verbal thrashing. "My visit to the Oval Office for lunch with the President was more in the nature of a visit in the woodshed after supper," Stockman said. "He was not happy about the way this has developed-and properly...
...nephew of mobsters and to look as if he might be following in the family tradition under cover of managing an import business on the Miami waterfront. It is an impression that his dress, manner and accent do nothing to correct. The gofer under verbal assault is Megan Carter, and it is her misfortune to be the sort of newspaperperson who believes in first impressions-and second and third ones, when she is led from one to the next by an overly ambitious and overly clever federal task force investigating organized crime...
...debate about Coolidge will go on. The verbal sketches in William Allen White's 1938 biography A Puritan in Babylon still loom large in public memory: "Flinty-faced, sugar-cured and hickory-smoked, the wordless Yankee joss sitting cross-legged in the, cosmos"; the world was "running madly extravagant"; Coolidge "stood, blinking at the tidal forces he could not fathom." If Reagan's economics fail, historians may say the same about him. If supply-side succeeds in some fashion, Reagan will not only give himself a boost in history but win a few more years of White House...
...energy. He has charm. His brittle smile can be the most unsettling experience in cinema. His characters seek the unanswerable. He can love and kill in a single breath. Like a glass time-bomb, intricate and wired, he is capable at any instant of erupting into wicked, verbal violence...