Word: ciceronian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Speaker Finneran spoke up yet again, this time replacing hyperbole with that old Ciceronian stand-by, alliteration. The morning after the primary, at a Democratic "unity breakfast," he refused to endorse Harshbarger, voicing concerns about the candidate's liberal policies...
...nation listen to him this time (as if we had not been last week when he gave us a non-denial denial). The voice was stronger, but the tap-dance continued: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky." Define the ambiguous "sexual relations." Note the Ciceronian use of the perjorative as well as demonstrative pronoun, "that." He then left the room, taking no questions. We are told he won't do so until all the information has been assembled. What information...