Word: verbalism
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When Hamilton Porter, the tubby, red-headed catcher from The Sandlot, entered into an insult competition with Phillips, captain of the crosstown rival team, some of the best verbal abuse in the history of sports movies ensued. The argument culminated with the ultimate low blow from Ham: “You play ball like a girl.” Ouch...
Harvard—it was a word I hardly ever said aloud to myself, let alone others. I had been intimated by numbers. 22,753 applicants. 2,600 with 800 verbal. 2,700 with 800 math. 3,000 valedictorians. 2,109 admitted students...
...verbal communication, kissing, embracing, holding hands, patting on the back, swaggering, throwing rocks, using tools, making tools, nurturing infants; showing real altruism by rescuing infants, adopting them, caring for them. And then on the reverse side you get this brutal behavior and a kind of primitive inclination to war as well...
...further than the Crimson’s archives—that whenever a Holden singer discusses anything that the choruses have done, they’ll use the first person plural. As a result, 19-year-old students with laptops in bag and cell phones in pocket develop a verbal tic of referring to high jinks they enjoyed during the late nineteenth century or early 1970s...
...verbal feedback and informal volunteer reports indicate that kids involved in the program seem to be showing improvement, Guerrero says...