Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grace Bumbry, 45, for a performance on the same stage. The first black person to sing with the Metropolitan Opera, Anderson has been inspiration and mentor to the two younger singers. Both, in fact, are Marian Anderson Scholarship winners. And so Verrett and Bumbry, who have occasionally flung verbal darts at each other, put aside their simmering feud long enough to participate in a rousing 80th-birthday tribute to Anderson last week at New York's Carnegie Hall. Since the two women and Carnegie Hall are much in demand, the birthday celebration had to be held on a date...
Howard Reinheimer, a Tufts senior, said Mr. Test approached him after the exam, waving his test form and telling him he had to fill in his name and couldn't cancel his score on the verbal section. Reinheimer said he ripped up his exam and then panicked as Mr. Test allegedly threatened to blacklist him with the Educational Testing Service...
...this book now, and quite possibly you never had, but as soon as you see a copy you'll grab it and turn to page 177. You'll find come a few statistics you probably already know. Male/female ratio of 65:35; average SAT scores of 700 verbal, 675 math--you get the idea...
...Chelsea, who has shows up at the Thayer's summer home for Norman's birthday. One can believe that Chelsea would turn up for such an event, but it's a bit of a strain to imagine her bringing along her demind-boyfriend to be skewered by Norman's verbal parries. The dentist (Debney Coleman), incidentally, is the real McCoy; he wears a light blue cotton Suit, a white and blue plaid short and a dark solid tie. Now that is a dentist. What requires a great leap of faith is understanding why Chelsea wants to unload the dentist...
...animals is language, articulate consciousness. What distinguishes Jack Abbott from millions of other convicts is a prose style that was capable of catching a famous writer's attention. It is interesting that, as psychologists have noted, some hopelessly inarticulate teenagers have committed murder because they simply lacked the verbal skill to communicate their anger in any other way; Abbott has at his command both the sophisticated and the more primitive forms of communication...