Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said in a statement yesterday that the league has appointed Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann, a former Watergate special prosecutor, to conduct an independent "fact-finding" inquiry into the alleged verbal abuse of Boston Herald sportswriter Lisa Olson in the Patriots locker room two weeks...
...crooked smile, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney possesses a tongue as sharp as his mind. Soon after he took office last year, he publicly scalded a four-star Air Force general for going behind his back to Congress. Military-service chiefs who oppose Cheney on budget cuts earn a solid verbal thump on the wrist. Last week Cheney fired the highly decorated Air Force chief, General Michael Dugan, for "poor judgment at a sensitive time" in speaking indiscreetly on secret and diplomatically touchy issues relating to the gulf crisis. Dugan was the first member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...conversation between two characters, I (Jeremy Geidt) and He (Tony Shalhoub), at the Cafe de la Regence in Paris. I is a philosopher who spends hours "observing all, talking to none," at his favorite haunts. He is the outcast nephew of the celebrated French composer Jean Philippe Rameau. Their verbal duel can either be interpreted as a disagreement of lifestyles between two people or as a vocalized internal struggle within an ambiguous individual...
...been lifted from relative obscurity by a white establishment bent on promoting any African American who publicly attacks mainstream black thinking on affirmative action and other civil rights causes. Like other black conservatives, including Crouch, Stanford economist Thomas Sowell and Harvard political scientist Glenn Loury, Steele takes a heavy verbal beating from black thinkers who argue that the mavericks are undeserving of the attention they receive. Says Martin Kilson, Harvard's first black tenured professor: "Steele's stuff is simpleminded, one-dimensional psychological reductionism. It's slick sophistry." Declares Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P.: "These people have nothing...
Despite the warning, an Iraq-Kuwait war is considered unlikely. U.S. officials believe Saddam's verbal blast is part of his campaign to dominate the Arab world and a hard-nosed tactic to force other oil producers to back Iraq when OPEC ministers hold their biannual summit this week in Geneva. Still, officials do not dismiss the possibility that Saddam might back his words with action...