Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressagent's idea. Whatever its source, the story spread until it gave a word to the language, a handsome yearly revenue to the castle's owners. Likeliest story: legend was inspired by Cormach McDermod Carthy, an early iyth Century occupant of the castle, for his verbal skill at harassing Queen Elizabeth's English...
...verbal blast at "the Sunday morning whiskey bottle" was fired by an irate Wellesley junior last week. In a letter to the editors of the college paper, she exhorted students to persuade their "talented young men" not to leave "remembrances" on the campus...
...during the 1948 Israel crisis, when he urged disputatious Arabs and Jews to get together and "settle this problem in a true Christian spirit." He cannot match India's Sir Benegal Rau in subtlety and sophistication. Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb is his superior in verbal riposte. But Austin sallies into U.N.'s polemic fray with certain granitelike inner qualities: tenacity, common sense, Old Testament righteousness, and a God-fearing faith in the cause of freedom and collective security...
...between-semester lull in sports activity has been enlivened by high verbal blasts from sundry directions. It started in Dallas and rapidly worked its way across the country to Pennsylvania...
Remember Pearl Harbor. For two years Japanese leaderswith General MacArthur's blessinghave been doing verbal handsprings to attract the attention of the State Department treatymakers. More than a year ago, Douglas Mac-Arthur said: ". . . They have well earned the freedom and dignity and opportunity which alone can come with the restoration of a formal peace...