Word: stiltedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rockefeller was on the phone with congratulations to the winner almost immediately, finally ending his $6 million, 100-day campaign. While friendly enough, the three-minute conversation was somewhat stilted. "Your daughters looked nice on TV," Rocky told Nixon. The winner expressed hope that the two could get together soon...
Since the Chinese invaded India through the passes in 1962, the border has been comparatively quiet. The most recent major firefight occurred last September. At such strategic spots as the 14,140-ft. Natu Pass, linking the Indian protectorate of Sikkim to Chinese-held Tibet, the two sides are literally...
Just as the play concerns ordinary existence and some higher form of life which Eliot calls "trans-humanization," so the language alternates between verse which approximates the rhythms of everyday speech and, occasionally, transcedent bursts of poetry. But the current production hangs somewhere in between, slightly stilted when it wants...
Full of political jargon and stilted phrases, the letters are not the sort of thing a Navyman would normally write. Each letter invariably recites the North Korean propaganda line that the U.S. must admit its transgressions, apologize and promise to sin no more. They also ask the recipients to organize...
Computers & Charisma. Though he will avoid a costly electronic assault on 683,000 New Hampshireites-as much because of his stilted speaking style as from the fact that the state has only one TV channel-Romney did challenge Nixon to a debate, which his foe is unlikely to accept. The...