Word: verbale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game was a tough, dirty one; at one point, sophomore Dick Manning and McFagden fought, and both benches and coaches joined the scramble. Officials had to break up a verbal squabble between Zunic and the usually mild mannered Shepard...
Novelist Selinko tells this story straight, with about as much verbal gusto as a court calendar. Nevertheless, her 594-page novel is already a bestseller in Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and other countries, and her publishers confidently expect that it will do as well...
...newsmen found out how Ike felt: he was puzzled and shocked. An aide explained: Eisenhower believes the U.S. people want dignity restored to the presidency: they do not want their highest public office degraded by petty bickering and name-calling. Though Ike refused to become involved in a verbal brawl with Harry Truman, it looked as though future relations between the two men must be coldly formal at best...
...Invisible Man was the picaresque epic of a Southern Negro trying to find a place in a white man's world. Not always in focus, its flair and vitality nevertheless made it one of the year's standouts. From another world was Louis Kronenberger's witty verbal quadrille, Grand Right and Left, about a bored billionaire who collects people instead of butterflies...
...hard feelings, worthy opponents, but let's grow up! We have stopped the physical riots, now let's stop the verbal riots. --A. CUSHMAN MAY '50 Yale...