Word: verbalism
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...airliners. It was the first deal to buy U.S. commercial jets. Total price: $269 million, the biggest in airline history. The deal is certain to be followed by purchase orders from other carriers. National Airlines is expected to sign for six DC-8s on which it took a verbal option last August. For the traveler, the jets will bring...
Republicans usually have found reasons to excuse Watt's verbal pyrotechnics, or at least let them pass. But this time, some were not so forgiving. Seven G.O.P. Senators joined longstanding Democratic calls for Watt's resignation. A motion to that effect almost reached a vote on the Senate floor before Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr. got wind of the attempt and hastily gaveled the session into recess. Nonetheless, said Republican Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota, "these last remarks have pushed me over the edge...
...assistant professor's grievance reportedly described episodes of both verbal harassment and physical contact by Dominguez that persisted for at least a year...
...Holyoke Center arcade is no concert hall, but Turner said he enjoys playing there nonetheless. "It softens the concrete." Turner explained, adding that audiences in Cambridge are "very verbal and very alert...
Mishima's abrasive career ended in seppuku (disembowelment, then decapitation by a member of his private "army"). Kawataba and Dazai were not given to such self-dramatization, but they too died by their own hands. Indeed, it is no mere verbal swagger to define contemporary Japanese writing as a matter of life and death. In the '70s one Tokyo scholarly journal devoted an entire issue to "The Writer and Suicide." There is a death wish operating through Japanese literature. Says Masao Miyoshi, a Japanese lit erary scholar (Accomplices of Silence...