Word: verbale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cohn drove his sharpest verbal barb at Adams when telling about Adams' telephone call to ask why Cohn had been ducking him. "I told Mr. Adams," Cohn calmly related, "I believed that he had been thoroughly dishonest. He asked me what I meant ... I told him that he had directly or indirectly made a blackmail threat...
...rocked the hearing room with laughter. Said he: "In my opinion, the reason that it was done was just for comparative purposes, just like in a prize fight on television, one of the fighters wears dark trunks and one of the fighters wears light trunks." McCarthy gave Blount a verbal tip of the hat: "I can see why you were selected as an aide to the general...
...Chicago last week CBS Board Chairman William Paley urged fellow-broadcasters to put controversial shows on the air and not worry about the verbal brickbats flung by partisan viewers. Said Paley: "Oldtime editors used to take such threats and actions in their stride, as part of their occupation. I think we broadcasters can afford a certain amount of the same stride in the face of our letter-writing, telegraph and telephone critics. If we are fair and responsible in our decisions, we will gain the approval and the respect of the large majority of the people...
...biggest change in attitude occurred among the press. Graham's first press conference in Britain was lively with verbal harpoons and loaded questions (TIME, March 8), but last week's conference ended with a benediction and bowed heads...
...words were hardly out of his mouth, when the French reporters scurried out and began filing urgent cables to their papers. The essence of what they said: the U.S. is writing off Indo-China. Flashing around the world, the news bulletins struck French officials with the weight of verbal atomic bombs. The French government asked the U.S. a plain and troublesome question: Just what will the U.S. do about the war in Indo-China if no agreement is reached at the Geneva Conference...