Word: verbally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispute flared into the open during a campaign broadcast when Furcolo showed up late and drew the verbal wrath of Kennedy. Unfortunately for both men, several reporters overheard the exchange and gave it wide coverage in the press...
Sarbanes did not say whether he favored written pledges or simply verbal promises of non-discrimination from landlords. But he did assert that the Housing Registry "should aim at getting a stronger commitment from landlords in order to obtain listing...
...President Eisenhower and, indeed, the nation, the absence of Mr. Adams from the post he commanded might appear even more of a loss than it might to one ex-presidential assistant. For the President is a verbal leader, albeit an inarticulate one, who filled his homilies and cliches with Mr. Adams' wisdom...
...Texan Terry Southern, 34, who lives and writes in Switzerland. The book opens quietly at a posh Los Angeles clinic where Dr. Frederick Eichner, "world's foremost dermatologist," listens to the symptoms of a new patient, Felix Treevly. Six pages later the calm is shattered by a verbal and physical violence, and the book careens off on a hounds-and-hares chase that dooms Patient Treevly and involves the pragmatic Dr. Eichner in an auto crash, murder, and the machinations of a monstrous private eye named Martin Frost...
...life of B.B., now ninety-three, has brought him into intimate contact with some of western man's greatest artistic creations and into the acquaintance and friendship of his most distinguished of contemporaries. Many have made the pilgrimage to I Tatti; some to engage Berenson in conversation, his favored "verbal art," others in search of wise counsel, yet others ask, and even cajole, the "world's greatest art expert" for his nod concerning the authenticity of works of art. Berenson has always proved affable, crudite and incorruptible. There were those, like Isabella Stuart Gardiner of Boston, who built collections...