Word: verbalizations
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...some of the more extreme critics would have it, a “national humiliation.” It made us look weak, yes, to declare that “we are very sorry the entering of China's airspace and the landing did not have verbal clearance,” when the reason that we entered their airspace in the first place was to make an emergency landing after a Chinese fighter smacked our plane in mid-air. But weakness and humiliation are different things, and we should be able to make up the lost ground by taking...
...rioting prompted by the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. We are saddened by the media’s disinterest, and we urge President George W. Bush to use his bully pulpit and seize this opportunity to bring these riots to national attention. Bush had expressed ardent verbal opposition to racial profiling throughout his campaign and asked the Attorney General for a report on the subject soon after taking office. We encourage Bush to continue with this process. The profound antagonism between the police and many urban communities must be resolved, but for that to occur it must receive...
...posthumous recording, and the second to hit No. 1. Meanwhile, the New York Theatre Workshop--whose past hits include Rent--has just unveiled a play about him that could spark even more interest. Up Against the Wind dramatizes the turbulent final years of Shakur's life--his increasingly sharp verbal skills, his growing attraction to gangsta rap and his fateful signing with Death Row Records. Shakur is turning up in bookstores too: a collection of his poems--The Rose That Grew from Concrete--published last year by Simon & Schuster, drew enthusiastic reader reviews. And it won't be long before...
...incident it would be more inclined to blame on the other side. Instead, the U.S. twice used the English phrase "very sorry," first for the loss of the Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, and second for the failure of the pilot of the stricken EP-3 spy plane to seek verbal clearance for entering Chinese airspace and landing at Hainan...
...poetry as one might read a Shell Sylverstein poem, the actors stumble through the lines as though they were written in prose. What seems like an attempt to stay true to the spirit of Molière’s original script ultimately comes across as something of a verbal fiasco...