Word: orale
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...enthusiastic Professor of English and American Literature and Language Gordon L. Teskey felt compelled to mention that “a good deal of English verse of the sixteenth century, before the emergence of iambic pentameter in the theatre, sounded like that: longer lines, lots of alliteration, a basically oral style sometimes called “tumbling measure...
Sharon E. Frase, an attorney in the New York office of Heller Ehrman, who is representing FAIR, said that a Supreme Court clerk told another lawyer at her firm yesterday morning that the justices are likely to hear oral arguments in the case in November or December...
...unresolved and a focus of fear. Firemen around the country have refused to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to AIDS patients and often to gay men in general. In New York City and Los Angeles County, fire departments are providing special mouthpieces and other equipment to permit rescue without oral contact. New York State's department of corrections is providing bite-proof, scratch-proof suits to officers guarding infected inmates...
...Smith has reason to fear. Her new novel follows such a bell ringer, a haunting and resonant story of Appalachia called Oral History (1983). Family Linen uses the same narrative technique: members of a troubled clan are revealed directly to the reader, one by one, in contrasting chapters...
...poems while in the saddle, with the steady clip-clop cadence of the horse guiding the iambs and a simple rhyme making the words easy to remember. This is crucial, for cowboys tell poems; they don't recite them. They can be found preserving this oral tradition in a dusky bar or a seedy motel. Says Knox: "I've never in my life sat around a campfire and asked somebody to tell a poem...