Word: verbalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Added Clout. While no industrialists have yet perished from the monks' verbal barbs, some have been shaken. "We want no curse on us-period," says an electric-power-company executive. Despite such grumbling, no one has legally attacked the cursers. "If any of the corporations concerned wanted to sue us," says one mendicant with a wry smile, "they would have to begin by establishing themselves as the polluters mentioned in our incantations." Tokyo Psychologist Kazuo Shimada explains the industrialists' nervousness: "We Japanese all have a tinge of mysticism in our blood and tend to be vulnerable...
...against surviving accomplices when the gun wielder is killed. Thus the issue in this case was whether the murder charge against Taylor could be justified by something his buddies did to incite Mrs. West that was even more provocative than waving a gun. According to the court majority, the verbal threat of "execution" and the agitated demeanor of the gunmen provided the necessary additional provocation. To the dissenters, this distinction seemed "absurd." They insisted that a verbal threat to use a drawn gun is redundant...
...scenes could better reveal the painfully comic convulsions that beset oldfashioned, dead-serious liberalism in the age of the ripoff, the put-on, and the total acceptance of verbal overkill. Wolfe's Leonard Bernstein is neither a freak nor a fool. Following the sound old American principle of defending civil liberties, wherever threatened, he winds up with the Panthers in his drawing room. Where bail was concerned, their legal rights certainly were threatened. But how is a good Jewish liberal to take a group that cheerfully talks about destroying his society and is, at the very least, linked...
...Verbal Overkill...
Also, in October the government changed the system of storm warnings broadcast over the radio. Thinking that the peasants did not understand the numerical ratings of 1 to 12 set up, the government substituted verbal descriptions. The island inhabitants were confused and fewer sought refuge than would have otherwise...