Word: verbalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure, King Hussein of Jordan is a moderate Arab monarch: antiCommunist, pro-Western, and opposed to throwing anything more threatening than verbal brickbats at Israel. Jordan has the longest and most vulnerable border with Israel of any of the Arab nations, is the first target of the Israelis' periodic retaliatory raids to Arab terrorist bombings...
...Mutilated) or attempts religious allegories (Milk Train) in which symbols masquerade as wonders. Arthur Miller thumbs disconsolately through a three-hour "Dear Diary" (After the Fall), making moralistic marginal notes on his past. Edward Albee has been a ventriloquist rather than a voice ever since he lit that verbal holocaust between the sexes, Virginia Woolf...
...seizure? The Fifth, answered Brennan, only prohibits "the use of physical or moral compulsion to extort communications" from a person. It does not exclude the "body as evidence when it may be material." Lie-detector tests, Brennan went on, might very well be improper because they involve questioning and verbal testimony...
...history, and building to a fairly preposterous climax. When George and Martha agree to lay to rest the ghost of their nonexistent teen-age son, there is solemn talk about the sterility of illusions, but the real issue appears to be a playwright's need to make his verbal fireworks add up to something...
That's probably a slight to the collegians to whom the style of awkward earnestness came naturally. They, at least, in their nominating speeches, didn't indulge in the verbal absurdities of the candidates...