Word: verbally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such tactics had already wrung from the Brazilians a verbal agreement to barter 3,000 tons of rubber for wheat. Juan Perón first drove Uruguay to rationing bread, then told Montevideo bakers that they could have all the wheat they wanted after he took office next month. Uruguay's elections come next fall, and Perón, who has never had much good to say for intervention, would regulate the flow of wheat to make sure that his candidate-Senator Eduardo Victor Haedo...
...Select officers for candidate schools and for promotion to a higher grade on the basis of: a) a verbal examination by three disinterested field-grade officers chosen for this special work and assigned permanently to this activity; b) a written examination; and c) the recommendations of the immediate commanding officer with emphasis on the individual's ability to get along with...
...Parliament, when not crusading for something, he crusades against crusaders. At his naughtiest, he has driven verbal splinters under Lady Astor's fingernails,-or lit dialectical firecrackers under the earnest Left. At his nicest, he has tilted at sesquipedalian government reports (his parody: "It has been aquating hard. I am now going to dehydrate my socks"). At his sanest, he helped win the first marked mitigation of Britain's stringent divorce laws since...
...worthiness for the scepter by leading his army in war. He invaded France, England's longtime enemy. He captured Harfleur, then tried to withdraw his exhausted and vastly outnumbered army to Calais (see map). The French confronted him at Agincourt. In one of Shakespeare's most stirring verbal sennets, Henry urged his soldiers on to incredible victory. English mobility (unarmored archers) and English firepower (the quick-shooting longbow) proved too much for the heavily armored French...
Because in writing Henry V Shakespeare was much hampered by the limitations of his stage, there was heavy work for the one-man Chorus, who, in persuasive and beautiful verbal movies, stirred his audience to imagine scenes and movement which the bare and static Elizabethan stage could not provide...