Word: verbalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House at the moment, there is something like an essay contest in progress among a few aides and speechwriters attempting to give verbal shape to the President's philosophy. If nothing else, the episode illustrates a difference between Nixon and his predecessor; it short-circuits the imagination to conceive of Lyndon Johnson approving of such a staff forum on what he was thinking, or ought to think...
...HARVARD did not budge even on those requests to which they had already given their verbal assent. In particular, the tenants have been plagued with difficulties about urban consulting and lack of a real voice in community affairs...
...people beating up other people. But I think it's good the Administration has come so far from tossing people out firmly. I don't like seeing people kicked out unless they are kicked out for acts of violence deemed criminal felonies." He said he would not define the verbal taunting of Dean May at the third University Hall takeover last semester as an act of criminal violence...
Harddriving, conservative and blunt, Annenberg, 61, suffers from periodic attacks of foot-in-mouth disease. In London, where verbal agility is an almost indispensable social grace, Annenberg's bloopers stand out like Mao badges in Moscow. A British magazine recently described Annenberg's manner as "that authentic transatlantic style which one might call folk-baroque, with the native bonhomie and verbal felicity of W. C. Fields." His phrases have an engraved quality. Asked how he liked London, for example, he replied: "I consider it a stronghold of dignified living." On his diplomatic role: "I am here...
...witness who did testify last week sparked a rare flash of Hoffman humor. "You're too high-priced a writer to give us all that detail for free," the jurist told high-priced Writer Norman Mailer. The amateur boxer and ring buff later summed up Hoffman as a verbal sparring partner: "A fast-moving featherweight who never gets his left out of your face. But he'd never knock anybody...