Word: verbalizations
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...Verbal fireworks continued even after the meeting had officially concluded. As Howe left the stage, he was approached by Thomas Dorgan, clerk of the Suffolk Superior Court and a long-time critic of the University. Dorgan, red-faced with anger, began an impassioned attack on Howe's address and on University policy in general. "You're too legalistic," he shouted. "There are people over there who violated the Teacher's Oath and we're going to get them out of there. I mean business." With a parting blast, Dorgan charged, "The members of the Corporation are not honorable men. They...
...trouble lies in the lack of any licensing system for sound trucks. While the Cambridge police are strict about parades they do not consider a 120 decibel juggernaut particularly worthy of supervision. Rather, they deem their verbal permission sufficient control of the trucks, adding only the afterthought that it would be nice to stay away from hospitals, schools and court-rooms...
Biographer Marberry wastes no time shoring up this literary rubble. Instead, he focuses on the flamboyant poseur who fashioned it, a man with the instincts of Barnum, the imagination of Munchausen, and the verbal aplomb of W. C. Fields...
...Tight suggests unsteadiness in ordinary physical activities, or noticeable aggressiveness, or oversolicitousness, or loss of control over social amenities or of verbal accuracy, or slight nausea...
Premier Malenkov's announcement that Russia has the hydrogen bomb was aimed at the U.S., and as a verbal bombshell it was something of a dud. In Washington there was none of the ashen-faced confusion that followed the discovery, in 1949, that the Russians had exploded an atomic bomb. President Eisenhower heard the news and an hour later took off for Denver and vacation without comment...