Word: verbalization
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...tenacious." Lawyer-Author George V. Higgins (The Friends of Eddie Coyle), who prosecuted two bank-fraud cases against defendants represented by St. Clair, recalls, "They were the most intense trials that I have ever experienced. He is a punishing adversary. His style is one of complete concentration and total verbal aggression...
...Verbal Bombshell. It soon became clear that unusual action would be needed to patch up the allies' relations. On Thursday, Kissinger unexpectedly appeared at the State Department's regular noon press briefing where he apologized for his biting comments: "I regret them, and I feel they make no great contribution to the Atlantic dialogue...
Europe's leaders scarcely had time to consider Kissinger's apology when Richard Nixon dropped another verbal bombshell on the alliance. At his Friday press conference in Chicago, the President warned Europe that "the day of the one-way street is gone." Nixon told the EEC that it must decide to work with the U.S. "on the economic and political front," or else America "will go separately." Just in case Europeans missed the point, the President observed that Congress might vote to cut U.S. troop strength in Europe unless some understanding is reached. On Saturday, Le Monde...
...center has no written contract guaranteeing it the rooms it uses, but Jane Trumpy, director of the center, said that the verbal agreement which the school has with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has had excellent consequences. The parents themselves built the school in the space provided by Harvard...
Perhaps in recognition of that unhappy fact, Washington has been talking about the Mexico City meeting in rather guarded terms. Notably missing has been any grand verbal sweep of the Yankee sombrero-the rhetorical overkill that, for instance, heralded the southern tour of Kissinger's predecessor William Rogers as the most important visit by any American Secretary of State in more than 40 years. Such hyperbole -which said "everything without doing anything," in the words of one Latin diplomat-has turned many Latin Americans into skeptics about U.S. intentions...