Word: verbale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School Admission Test is comprised of objective questions measuring verbal aptitudes and reasoning ability rather than specific acquired information. Applications to take the law tests must be made to the Service at least ten days before the desired testing date, Terral stated...
After that, the festival's sponsors chose to drop Blackboard from the program. But MGM's Dore Schary raged: "What Ambassador Luce has done represents flagrant political censorship." Italy's Communists, of course, agreed, and, in the ensuing verbal brouhaha, sight was lost of the fact that no censorship had been imposed by either the Italian or U.S. governments. All that had happened was that Europeans had been informed that not all Americans are content to receive their mail addressed to "Tobacco Road...
Whether or not Perón cowed any restive generals or admirals, he effectively put a halt to the verbal street-corner opposition that flourished during the "pacification" interlude. The night after the speech, Buenos Aires was quiet, deadened by fear...
Much of the verbal cyanide which blew around Yugoslav Communist Leader Tito during his famous quarrel with Stalin was manufactured in the propaganda laboratory of Hungarian Communist Leader Matyas Rakosi. Tito never forgot or forgave. With the recent renewal of friendship between Russia and Yugoslavia, it was Tito's turn to poison Rakosi's cup. In a speech at Karlovac, he sharply reminded the Russians that Hungary was being noticeably slow about getting on the new friendship train. Said Tito: "These are people lacking in the Communist courage to admit their past mistakes towards our country. For years...
...high literacy rate, contains so many morons who will support these gamey magazines. Teenagers are abandoning comic books in favor of this exposé tripe." Instead of suing, Columnist Robb said, Doris Duke should have organized "an old-fashioned vigilante party and horsewhipped the shabby crew responsible for this verbal assault. A cat-o'-nine-tails speaks a powerful language that might even penetrate the elephant hide and conscious of these lice...