Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Greenidge says there are just some officers on the force who are temperamentally unsuited to dealing with kids. "Not all officers can talk to children and take [their] verbal abuse...
...great period for defining the issue of slavery in politically manageable terms. But that involved a good deal of fancy footwork and casuistry. When he did not want to discuss uncomfortable matters brought up by Douglas, he loaded his sentences with what the political analyst Willmoore Kendall called "verbal parachutes," phrases he could use for bailing out of anything he said. Here, for instance, he answers a question about abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, the government's own area of direct rule: "I believe that Congress possesses the constitutional power to abolish it. Yet as a member...
...alleged harassment included verbal abuse, unusually close monitoring of minority guards during shifts, and threats of reprisals...
Trying to put the baby to sleep, Brown offereda verbal list of tranquilizers...
...About You, like Love and War, is too self-consciously verbal on the subject of sex, but it has more self-deprecating wit. She: "It doesn't bother you that we haven't had sex in five days? What's going on with us?" He: "What's going on is that we're married five months and the sexual part . . . is over. I thought you understood that...