Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bilbo, victor in Mississippi's recent Democratic primaries, took a 15-minute verbal hiding from the four Negro leaders, who were allotted radio time by the Mutual Broadcasting system to answer a broadcast he made over the same network...
...Allies that Austria, unlike Germany, is to be treated as a liberated and not as a conquered nation, according to the Moscow pact.* He also keeps storming against Austria's partition into occupation zones. The quadripartition has completely paralyzed the Austrian economy. Renner also fights a running verbal battle (probably futile) for the return of Southern Tyrol, ably supported by Austria's Dr. Karl Gruber...
Specifically, Orwell would do away with such "dying metaphors" as toe the line, ride roughshod over, play into the hands of, stand shoulder to shoulder with, such "verbal false limbs" as make contact with, play a leading role in, serve the purpose of, and such "pretentious diction" as phenomenon, constitute, epochmaking, unforgettable, ancien régime, status quo. And he would clearly define or do without such "meaningless words" as realistic, sentimental, fascism, democracy, progressive, reactionary...
...these discharges of verbal grapeshot infuriate Crump's enemies, they charm and stimulate his admiring friends and followers. For Ed Crump, a ruthless, rawhiding, ramrodding political boss, is also a dramatic figure molded in the fighting Tennessee tradition of Andy Jackson, Sam Houston, and Nolichucky Jack Sevier-and thousands of Tennesseans love...
Died. Baron Emile Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne, 74, old-school Belgian Ambassador to London, bemonocled dean of the diplomatic corps of the Court of St. James's; of a heart attack; in London. A diplomat's diplomat, he loved verbal jousts with the press, once defined his job: "A good ambassador is one who carries off the pork without spilling the beans...