Word: orality
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...decades, historians have relied on written and oral accounts to pinpoint the killings, but it wasn't until the commission began gathering forensic evidence in 2005 that the scope of each massacre became clearer. The South Korean military, for example, claimed in reports that more than 1,000 "communist guerrillas" were killed at Bulgap Mountain that night in February. But the excavation tells a different story. Investigators found 133 intact skeletons bending their knees and clutching their fingers behind their skulls - 21 were under 16 years old and nonmilitary artifacts like toys and hairpins were found, indicating the people were...
Seiler then took an oral vote to certify the results. According to Osborne, one of the EC members who later resigned, there were no voices of dissent at the time, resulting in a successful certification...
...appearance’s sake, all was as it usually was. Voting had closed at noon that day, and the results had been certified by an oral vote of five of the seven-member Commission—which oversees the elections each year—six hours later. But after a few minutes of squabbling, Commission Chair Brad A. Seiler ’10 relocated the gathering to the Science Center for an impromptu meeting...
...human cultures, food has always been not just a vital necessity and visceral pleasure, but a social unifier and a cultural signifier. Food is art, and like literature, film, and painting, cuisine is created and evolves through dialogue; it is handed down and built upon almost like an oral epic. Each dish and ingredient tells a complex and continuing story about the people that produced it. What reaches our tables today expresses the ingenuity, love, and dedication not only of those in our modern kitchens, but those who first picked a suspicious looking morel mushroom or first decided to throw...
...third classmate says he witnessed at least three oral presentations by Hasan over the course of a year that focused on the morality of Muslims, war and justification for suicide bombers. "People were giving presentations on air quality or water quality, but he'd be full of psychobabble about how the persecution of Muslims justifies suicide bombers," the officer says. After a while, Hasan's classmates "would just roll our eyes saying, 'Here we go again...