Word: verbalizations
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Novelist Selinko tells this story straight, with about as much verbal gusto as a court calendar. Nevertheless, her 594-page novel is already a bestseller in Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and other countries, and her publishers confidently expect that it will do as well...
...newsmen found out how Ike felt: he was puzzled and shocked. An aide explained: Eisenhower believes the U.S. people want dignity restored to the presidency: they do not want their highest public office degraded by petty bickering and name-calling. Though Ike refused to become involved in a verbal brawl with Harry Truman, it looked as though future relations between the two men must be coldly formal at best...
...Invisible Man was the picaresque epic of a Southern Negro trying to find a place in a white man's world. Not always in focus, its flair and vitality nevertheless made it one of the year's standouts. From another world was Louis Kronenberger's witty verbal quadrille, Grand Right and Left, about a bored billionaire who collects people instead of butterflies...
...hard feelings, worthy opponents, but let's grow up! We have stopped the physical riots, now let's stop the verbal riots. --A. CUSHMAN MAY '50 Yale...
...easy to see why Presidential containment of such men is a necessity. And if Eisenhower is true to his word, it might come about. From his presidency of Columbia to the height of his campaign activity, Eisenhower has not changed his verbal opposition to witch hunts and character assassination. He has respected, and with wisdom, that loyalty quests could be conducted not by congressmen who place votes above freedom, but by experienced security officials...