Word: verbalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fred Sullens was no man to let up. "In his verbal hemorrhage . . . judgepaul-bulljohnson denounced the editor of the Daily News as a cowardly assassin of character or something to that effect. . . . Our plea is not guilty. We have never assassinated the character of the most dangerous demagogue who ever afflicted a long-suffering commonwealth...
Over Hull's Shoulder. The week's diplomatic news made significant footnotes to American White Paper. When Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita made a verbal pass at The Netherlands East Indies, it was significant that Cordell Hull gravely, politely, promptly warned Japan against intervention-warned beforehand instead of protesting afterwards, as the U. S. has often done...
Defeated by a bare 1,760 votes in the fall of 1938, the proposed charter provoked a bitter verbal exchange between Cambridge city councilors and James M. Landis, dean of the Law School and head of the Plan E. Committee...
...really frightened, Gottlieb finally persuaded Greene to get a verbal license from Mayor Lyons...
Above this level come serious poems about people and places, in which Auden states his admirations and aversions, hopes and fears. The potpourri is tied together more by constant verbal virtuosity than by any underlying single-mindedness. Auden admires a hand-picked selection of the Great-his criticisms of them are acute, his praise of them generally mystagogic; he admires Love-but writes no loving poem; socially, he is a run-of-the-parlor pink-but he is a nearly bloody hater of the upper-class English "old gang." By birth Auden belongs with them; and he sees a worm...