Word: verbale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three times a year the editors of the CRIMSON allow their vociferous, if small, dissenting element to speak. While his opinions are of doubtful validity, his verbal power cannot be overlooked. Mr. Royce was raised on an apple farm, but ran away from home seven years ago. Since then he has served two years in the army and five years as an undergraduate at Harvard. He served in Korea during the recent conflict, but wasn't much use. His grandfather was a philosopher. His father...
...misfortune, which they figure is best done by earthing old Harry on top of the hill, are inevitable. The script Hitchcock uses is in the manner of a very garrulous Noel Coward, lacking a great deal of the sponteneity and verve which make salon situation humor tolerable. Funny verbal exchanges might have saved the endless repetition of burying Harry, digging him up, and then burying him again. Poor cold Harry must not have been amused...
...vote of 79-1 (North Dakota's maverick Republican Bill Langer) and authorized $350,000 for the job. Said Johnson: "I believe that the members selected for the committee will do their jobs in their own way, according to their best judgment, and"-adding a broad verbal wink-"I am hopeful that the job they do will meet with the approval of all fairminded, patriotic, non-political Senators...
...place of the Brady petition, the Council submitted to the administration a proposed rule that..."any verbal attack by one undergraduate organization upon another, which may be interpreted by the Deans' Office as clandestine, shall be deemed action unbecoming to a Harvard student...
...display of verbal pyrotechnics never resorts to the archaic, however, and every nuance between the King's English and slang is both intentional and meaningful...