Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientists last week assured the ikon-loving Russians: "We are convinced that Lenin's body will remain in its present state for hundreds of years." Lenin's place in the Soviet hagiology, however, was not equally secure; he was becoming a mere peg on which to hang verbal votive offerings to Russian nationalism and to Stalin...
...long as U.S. servicemen-even radio beacon operators and weathermen-remain at Greenland outposts, the U.S. is exposed to verbal sniping from Moscow for "keeping troops on foreign soil." But with the Soviets trying to muscle in on Norway's Spitsbergen (TIME, Jan. 20), Washington military men thought this might be as good a time as any to buy Greenland, if they could...
...barrage of verbal tomatoes, cabbages, and assorted fruit that hit the fan following the final curtain of "I Was a King in Babylon" was received with unusual graciousness and good spirit by the Veterans Theatre Workshop. "Shamelessly and unabashedly" confessing that activity around the box-office is a necessity for continued life, the Workshop --pessimistically prophesying, at the same time, that even "the best production of the finest classic would see the same Harvard student body staying away in droves"--is frankly asking the dinner crowd at House dining halls to choose their next production...
When the King and his coach had gone, the House of Commons got down to what was really on its mind: the "revolt" [strictly verbal] of Labor backbenchers, led by Richard Grossman and Tom Driberg, who think Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's policy too anti-Russian. Said Driberg: "I must warn the Foreign Secretary that . . . the people of this country will certainly not follow him to war now or in five years' time against Soviet Russia in partnership with the barbaric thugs of Detroit or the narrow imperialists of Washington or Wall Street...
...verbal barrage thickened, the betting odds stuck close to even money...