Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treaty obligations shelved for the moment, verbal sword-rattling continued apace in the Japanese press. The official Domei news agency predicted that the Diet's extraordinary session on Nov. 15 would find Premier Hideki Tojo detailing a time limit for U.S.-Japanese discussions. Said the conservative Asahi: "Japan, making a great sacrifice to establish the New East Asia, must take even stronger resolutions to go straight ahead in this and other national policies, to the disregard of American obstructions." Yomiuri made much of the Reuben James sinking, doubted U.S. ability to police both oceans, termed the Atlantic Fleet...
Critics of Munich men did not worry about dynamic Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, whose verbal leaps into bed with Russia have been spectacular, who has reportedly urged a British Expeditionary Force in the Ukraine or the Donets Basin. But the testy, growling Beaver himself was stirring up a Cabinet crisis that might bring about a drastic reorganization. Last week he was wheezing with his periodic asthma. His sickness may have been partly political, for he threatened to resign. Behind his threat was seen a warning that he would like the non existent post of Minister of Production, a powerful combination...
Miss Sheridan, who has enjoyed several verbal tiffs with Harvard students, wrote the editor of the Advocate...
Parts of the book come as close to reproducing the actual as words and pictures can. Evans' photographs of the landlord, the tenant families, their houses and town are as direct and honest as though his camera had no lens at all. Agee heaps up verbal detail on everything he saw or imagined, including...
...Nazi-conquered countries. In America it will increase confidence that Rossevelt's promises will mean more than the Fourteen Points in making the peace. Verbose and eloquent promises are easy to forget and to misinterpret--clear, factual agreements publicly issued are hard for even the European masters of verbal gymnastics to pervert. Therefore, the proposals of Wallace and Leith-Ross, if sufficiently just, widely enough publicized, and actually carried out, may mean that the war will not inevitably result in an economically unworkable Europe. With freedom of access to markets and raw materials open to nations large or small, political...