Word: verbalizations
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...Viking Portable, Kronenberger prints from the Malahide Papers Boswell's Dialogue with Rousseau, making it available for the first time in a trade edition. Boswell dropped in at the humble retreat of the great Frenchman several times, carefully set down every verbal exchange...
...depths of mendacity." He added that these people had reached "a maximum of vilification and a minimum of veracity." Sir Joseph Davison, Grand Master of Orangemen, went even farther in the direction of peace. He left all mention of Catholics out of his written speech, and merely interpolated a verbal warning: "And we must ever be on the alert against the threat of rule by Popery...
...notion of defending to the death the rights of swine to swinish, so long as they keep it verbal, is a notion which did very well for the period of English quietism in which it was most popular, but in rough times like the present it is too often an excuse for nonparticipation in public life. The common-garden myth of toleration goes about like this: permitted to express themselves, "extremists" "blow off steam," and are consequently less dangerous; the "extremes" neutralize each other in some way and serve as a means of locating the current Middle Ground, where...
...Falange is not all-powerful. The Army and the Church hate and fear it. The three are held in uneasy alliance by the consummate skill of that underestimated little dictator, Francisco Franco, and by the inept and purely verbal opposition of the democracies...
Spring and a little man, with a megaphone hit the Cambridge police department yesterday, and as a result, busy passerbys spent their time dodging traffic to the accompanyment of verbal instructions from the police department...