Word: verbalizer
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...debate began last week with a verbal explosion touched off by--who else?--the Administration's self-appointed sayer-out-loud of the politically unthinkable: Budget Director David Stockman. At a Senate Budget Committee hearing, he was asked what relief the Administration was willing to extend to farmers who are unable to repay their loans. His reply: "For the life of me, I cannot figure out why the taxpayers of this country have the responsibility to go in and refinance bad debt that was willingly incurred by consenting adults who went out and bought farmland when the price was going...
...name (in Russian, ya, in Greek, oula, in Irish, een) so as to express fond feelings. Psychologists might suggest that the purpose of these diminutions is to assert the superiority of lover to loved one ("my pet"), but the effect diminishes all parties. We have created these words as verbal comforters, warm safety zones, wherein anyone, no matter how high and mighty, is free to sound like a nitwit...
...years up to the early 70's for more attention was paid to the text-in reworking things, editing and even proof reading-and the emphasis was on word play and puns," he adds, "In other words the work moved from verbal to visual...
...could be adjusted to fit the severity of the crime. Since there is a $2 profit limit those making $2.10 would suffer a vigorous verbal rebuke. Those scalpers making a profit of $2.50 would be stripped, smeared in honey, and the with Harvard Food Service. Those scalpers making a percent of $200 would become the involuntary donors of rejected what organs...
...well reflected the old Reagan, the one unburdened by presidential propriety. And at the White House last Wednesday, having reaffirmed her intention to go back to academe, she rushed from the Oval Office declaring she had to return to New York and bolster Chad as it went into verbal battle with villainous Libya. In the end, of course, her very virtuosity kept her from the pinnacles of power. Now Ambassador-at- Large Vernon Walters, a world troubleshooter for six Presidents, is likely to take...