Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verbal slugfest with the Eisenhower Administration, Joseph Raymond McCarthy, the onetime Marquette University light-heavyweight boxer, had taken a solid punch on the jaw. Last week Senator McCarthy's committee colleagues moved in to separate the assailants. Taking advantage of the bell, Slugger McCarthy took off as scheduled on a Midwestern speaking tour, hoping that a change of pace and of subject would help him recover from damage done by the Army's chronicle of the case of Private David Schine. But the bell came too late to avert physical exhaustion: two days later Joe McCarthy was stricken...
...Critical Ridge. In the verbal free-for-all that inevitably followed this first darting rabbit punch, Edith more than proved her talent for infighting, and soon attracted the attention of an important matchmaker. Last December London's learned and respected lawyers' debating club, the Hardwicke Society, invited Dr. Summerskill to come and stage a few fast rounds of debate at the Inner Temple with Britain's big fight promoter Jack ("Mr. Boxing") Solomons. The proposition : "That this house wishes professional boxing to be banned...
...crime, and if the Gorgonzola is smelling up the house, then change the cheese, but, in God's name, do not forget that the house has to get rid of its dirty rats!" Others-e.g., Quincy Howe, Elmer Davis and John Vandercook-took after McCarthy with verbal scalpels...
Although a two-way commitment is a feature of most contracts, ROTC agreements are unique. While binding on the person who signs them, they provide slipknnots which allow the military services to wriggle out of inconvenient obligations. Four years ago the Air Force made verbal contracts with freshmen entering the AFROTC, promising them second lieutenant's commissions upon graduation. But the shortage of candidates for flying school and an oversupply of non-flying officers have compelled the Air Force to prepare its ROTC men for pilot training. Prodded by budget cuts, the Air Force has decided that the three thousand...
While these students never received written guarantees of a commission upon completion of the AFROTC, few would have sacrificed a large part of their time unless they believed that the Air Force would honor verbal promises. Even John Hanna, Assistant Secretary of Defense, has agreed that the Air Force is morally bound to commission the three thousand seniors...