Word: verbale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reaction in the world's capitals to the day's events ranged from firmness in London to rancorous denunciation in Cairo. The Conservative government of Prime Minister Eden beat off the verbal assaults of Labour leaders and London pickets, and survived four rigid votes of confidence...
...domestic sphere, Harris charged Eisenhower with proposing many large programs, and then failing to carry them out. He cited the Administration's verbal support for the school aid program, which was not only not followed up with action, but actually defeated by GOP members of Congress...
...play is a sermon, however, it preaches by demonstrating. Just as Shaw himself debates with the audience, so the play's principal character, Andrew Undershaft, engages in a series of verbal duels with the rest of the cast. Laughton and his designer, Donald Oenslager, chose to underline this element of Shaw's way of constructing the play by making the main feature of the set two identical benches, placed on opposite sides of the stage and remaining fixed even when the scene shifts to a different location. Laughton, playing the part of Undershaft, almost invariably sits on or stands near...
...desire for rapid economic progress. But the President's foreign policy cannot be separated from that of his Secretary of State, and here the past four years can be chalked up as little but bluster, blunder, and an inability to see that the future requires change. Dulles' well-known verbal blunders have done a great deal to harm American prestige, but they do not fully account for the precarious position of this country's foreign power. What is demanded, and what the Eisenhower Administration has failed to provide, is a fundamental shift in American foreign policy. The times demand...
...verbal confusion surrounding these proposals, an attempt has been made to cite, as having made "similar proposals," great world figures, even including His Holiness Pope Pius XII. All these men-like this Government, like all responsible and thoughtful leaders in the free world, statesmen or churchmen-are sincerely anxious for international agreement allowing effective control of all armaments...