Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...risky, as Gerald Ford learned in Detroit, where his appearance irritated a watching Reagan. But it was Cronkite, not Ford, who in the words of the New Republic's John Osborne, had "gratuitously and disastrously" characterized Ford's terms as "something like a co-presidency." Such verbal overkill is uncharacteristic of Cronkite, an anchorman as gifted as any at noting profoundly that we now have "an interesting situation...
This was all part of the famous "Johnson treatment": an allfours assault accompanied by a nonstop verbal barrage. Ben Bradlee, executive editor of the Washington Post, remembers: "One hand was shaking your hand; the other hand was some place else, exploring you, examining you... He'd be feeling up Katharine Graham and bumping Meg Greenfield on the boobs. And at the same time he'd be trying to persuade you of something...
...getting about 125,000 bbl. of crude a day from Libya. Billy said he thought he could get the company up to an additional 100,000 bbl. If he did so, Carter wondered, what kind of broker's commission would Charter pay? The two men worked out a verbal agreement that was later confirmed in a short "Dear Billy" letter by Nasife. If Billy succeeded in providing 100,000 bbl. per day in the tight oilmarket, Carter would be paid 55? per bbl.-$20 million a year. If oil became more plentiful, Billy still would...
...have had it with verbal abuse, disobedience, cheating, apathy, and stealing of and damage to personal property on the part of those I tried to teach. You won't see me in September...
...professor of education at Boston University, seems to confirm a long-standing charge that one of the easiest U.S. college majors is education. Weaver found the high school seniors who planned to major in education well below the average for all college-bound seniors-34 points below average in verbal scores on the 1976 Scholastic Aptitude Test, 43 points below average in math. Teaching majors score lower in English than majors in almost every other field...