Word: verbalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, no matter how carefully we count the words in our stories, some fail to fit the columns of the magazine when they are cast in actual metal. And so, sandwiched in between the stories, the Teletype-setters flash instructions for changes in copy, usually in a sort of verbal gibberish: For example, on page 36 of this issue...
...carefully sidestepped specific reason for its drastic action, only admitted "unsatisfactory relations" in Cleveland. But Washington dopesters said WLB's stilted phrase was verbal whitewash to cover a nasty situation, pointed to paragraph No. 6 of the Board's decision, which orders official observers to the Cleveland plant at once...
...Department, of all people, put on a soap opera last week. Aimed at the countless devotees of radio's endless "strip shows," it was unusual only in its subject matter and its freedom from the verbal lather of commercials. Its name: Chaplain...
...first works burned by the Nazis when they came to power. Laid in Jerusalem at the time of the Third Crusade, it offers a setting in which Christian, Jew and Mohammedan can hardly help being at one another's throats. But by restricting them to purely verbal combat, Lessing has them end up in one another's arms. The noble-minded Nathan rids the hot-tempered Crusader of his intolerance, the keen-witted Saladin of his doubts...
...Woolcott's glee in having a play written about his thousand-and-one ways to lose friends and alienate people. If he doesn't sue the authors for libel, he has either a magnificent sense of humor or such atrocious manners that he deserves having Kaufmann and Hart throw verbal darts...