Word: verbale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Does Anybody Win? Mrs. Celinsky's market basket was indeed the center of the long verbal war before the WSB's fact-finding panel. Was the basket, as Murray claimed, too scant for the growing output of her steelworker husband? Or would it, as Moreell and the industry argued, actually shrink-in spite of higher wages-because of higher prices that would result from them...
...Verbal Stand...
During the era in which the cram parlors flourished, the University took a strong verbal stand against them, but backed it up with little direct action. University Hall issued feeble protests and assumed a general air of helplessness and indifference for some time, while the "academic hijackers" were eating away at the vitals of the educational system...
...sucker for the most faded verbal orchid from the most cynical suitor. The worst book will get his best notices if he is favorably mentioned in it ... He feels compelled on all occasions to remind the world that he is a central figure in the history of the 20th century. 'One hundred years from now I'm the only newspaperman they'll remember,' he told a private audience ... He depicts himself as the eternal friend of the underdog ... his only requirement is that the underdog remain forever on his leash...
...frowningly and all its details subjected to legalistic analysis. It may even elicit a rebuke for exaggeration. But if the judge is in an uproarious humor, he will take the tall story and run it up several degrees higher into Gargantuan fantasy, rolling with laughter at his own verbal extravagance...