Word: verbalizations
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...Goan invasion, Menon snapped: "Well, he's not here, is he?" A possible clash between Menon and the U.S.'s Adlai Stevenson from the rostrum of the General Assembly was avoided when the two men met in private, thus depriving the Assembly of a spectacular verbal display...
...from Paris to Tokyo, from Buenos Aires to Manhattan, the small, unconventional stages of the world are reflecting it. In these plays, the bizarre is the norm. There is a woman with three noses, a family whose every member is named Bobby Watson. Sometimes the absurdity is purely verbal: "The small of my back is too big, Doctor." More often it is physical, macabre and symbolic. Two men try to measure a corridor only to find that their measuring tapes are blank. A couple have a growing corpse in the next room, and its huge foot finally pops open...
Despite the verbal fireworks-as well as a few real fireworks and stink bombs-the campaign was marked by few real issues. Menzies confidently pointed to Australia's economic progress during his twelve-year tenure, promised "good government" rather than "a long list of promises." Naturally, he did not concentrate on the 2.3% unemployment rate which, though falling, is about twice the usual figure for Australia. Labor Party Candidate Arthur A. Calwell, 65, grandson of a U.S. gold prospector who left for Down Under in the gold rush of the 1850s, emphasized the unemployment issue, promised a grab...
From the Philippine House of Representatives, he moved to his country's U.N. delegation (in 1951 Macapagal had a notable verbal clash about Communist aggression with Russia's Andrei Vishinsky) and on to the vice presidency, polling 117,000 more votes in 1957 than the winning candidate for President, Carlos Garcia...
...Wachuku's debut as Nigeria's new Foreign Minister, and the verbal swagger reflected his country's pride in being Africa's most populous nation (40 million). It also reflected the fact that the new, half-civilized African states do not enter the world stage with any shyness. Only one year after his land reached nationhood, Wachuku could stand before the U.N. to lecture the world: "I am serving notice..." (to South Africa), "Things we want..." (from Portugal...