Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some versions of hospitality from fellow wayfarers annoyed me. I rated special attention as a solitary woman, and older, perhaps more worldly-wise, members of my own sex tsked at me warningly or smiled enigmatically (An unsatisfactory verbal rendering might be, "Foolish urchin, she'll get what's coming to her, like it or not."), while men couldn't get it through their heads that I wasn't beaming a silent plea for companionship. Slips of paper scrawled with undecipherable names of meaningless splotches on the globe flutter out of my wallet now and then...
...Verbal Beat. Ford formally opened his campaign last week in his home state at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He packed the university's 14,000-seat Crisler Arena. Speaking from a platform dwarfed by a huge maize-colored M on a field of blue, he was introduced by a band that shifted neatly from the school song "Hail to the victors" to Hail to the Chief. Ford retained his composure as a group of hecklers booed parts of his speech and he flinched but barely missed a verbal beat as a cherry bomb went...
...madness and chaos of the rattlesnake hunt itself, with the implication that the ancient, once powerful symbol of the snake has been so trivialized it no longer has the capacity to heal. As in past novels, Crews gets carried away with his own wildly fertile imagination and verbal gifts. His new book is full of brilliant descriptions and characters attempting to kick and gouge their way through some back door to salvation. The problem is that there is too little distinction between the truly grotesque and the gratuitously bizarre...
...Strength. In recent months, Syria's 15,000 troops in Lebanon have helped bring the P.L.O.-Moslems largely, but not completely-under control. Libya has desperately tried to help the Palestinians, pouring as much as $50 million into P.L.O. coffers in one month. Iraq and Egypt have given verbal support to the besieged leftists, but few arms have been getting through because of a Syrian naval blockade that is occasionally supported by Israeli ships. So weak has the P.L.O. now become that when the U.S. admitted that it had direct contacts with the P.L.O. (in order to secure...
...instance, Egypt sprang to the Palestinian defense. But that Arafat ignored Cairo's support was not so much pro-Palestinian as anti-Syrian: the Egyptians supported the P.L.O. chiefly because they were riled by criticism in Damascus of Cairo's peace negotiations with Israel. Continuing his verbal jousting with Damascus last week, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat demanded a Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, angrily suggesting that Damascus had entered the fighting through "miscalculation and conspiracy...