Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ridiculous. To be sure, past German governments have refused to address East Germany as the "German Democratic Republic," but mostly because of the conviction that, if anything, that German Republic is not democratic. However, the new West German Government under Chancellor Kiesinger has started a campaign to cease such verbal hostilities...
While this lapse--and others--results either from myopia, misinformation, or verbal hysteria, the handling of the actual events of the assassination and the assassin is more disturbing. The author's explanation is smug. The Warren Commission's most controversial theory--that one bullet hit both Kennedy and Gov. Connally--is not challenged. Despite Connally's recollection that the first shot did not hit him, Manchester writes "it had passed through...Connally's back, chest, right wrist, and left thigh, although the Governor, suffering a delayed reaction, was not yet aware of it." Certainly Connally may be wrong and Manchester...
...median College Board Scores for the class are 680 in verbal and 710 in math -- a level which has varied little over the past few years. "The scores have remained constant at least partly because of our efforts to get students from rural areas and urban slums; they don't score as well as those from suburbia," Smith said...
...then checked his results by using the verbal aptitude score alone as his intelligence criterion. Some people consider it a better measure than prl, Dr. Nicholai said, because it does not take motivation into account...
...gauges of intelligence produced the same results, however. The higher the prl or the verbal aptitude, the higher was the incidence of dropping out for psychiatric reasons, he found. (About 35 per cent of the dropouts in the sample were diagnosed at UHS as having a specific psychiatric problem...