Word: verbale
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...campaign advisers to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama engaged in verbal combat at the Institute of Politics last night, sparring over the Illinois senator’s stated views on the war in Iraq...
...possession of several dozen new happy souls. But one less happy consequence of this feeling is the fierce debate, already raging on house lists, over the garb in which they shall enrobe their novitiates. Internal strife has engulfed Quincy, Winthrop, and Mather, among others, prompting students to wage ferocious verbal battle in an attempt to persuade each other that their T-shirt design is, indeed, the best. As Charles J. Swanson ’08, one particularly zealous member of the Winthrop clan, wrote in an e-mail on the Winthrop House e-mail list after a fierce exchange...
...Officers were dispatched in response to a report that an individual was refusing to leave another individual alone near Au Bon Pain. Officers arrived, spoke to the two individuals, and report that it was a verbal disagreement...
...Undergraduate Council voted yesterday to deny a proposed plan that would have put copies of The New York Times in campus dining halls. Opening a meeting that occurred the day after a laser tag-themed UC retreat, President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 looked to defuse any verbal gunplay that might accompany consideration of the newspaper legislation. “I know this is sort of a testy issue, but I think we can get through it...politely,” he said. Even before Petersen’s comment, Soren Rosier...
...helping her sister and aging father to manage the Snow Palace Hotel in Kars.As Ka travels through the dilapidated neighborhoods of Kars interviewing the families of girls who had committed suicide, he hears of lives of quiet desperation: 16-year-olds engaged to elderly men, girls subjected to verbal and physical abuse by fathers and husbands, and so on.Yet the histories of “head-scarf girls” of the Institute are different: these are comparatively privileged girls whose parents support their pursuit of college education. These girls have given the head scarf a particular semiotic significance...