Word: verbalism
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While BSA officers said they would like an apology from Mansfield, they said they would also like to see a response on the part of the administration beyond simple verbal criticism...
Each Palestinian who approaches this checkpoint has no idea how the police and solders will treat him, but he does know that he has little recourse if he is mistreated. I know a Palestinian who was harassed at a checkpoint until he lost his temper; for his verbal barrage, he received a series of vague fines that destroyed the better part of his income for the week. I have met Palestinians who traveled for hours and took huge risks to circumvent the Israeli closure of the West Bank so they might earn enough money to provide their children with food...
After attempting to pursue an errand ball on the opponent's side of the net as per the new "international pursuit rule" approved by the NCAA this year, Bookman had a verbal altercation with MIT outside hitter Dan Roy. After Roy and Bookman had exchanged pleasantries, the officials appeared confused as to how to handle the encounter...
After attempting to pursue an errand ball on the opponent's side of the net as per the new "international pursuit rule" approved by the NCAA this year, Bookman had a verbal altercation with MIT outside hitter Dan Roy. After Roy and Bookman had exchanged pleasantries, the officials appeared confused as to how to handle the encounter...
...with any self-respecting symbol, meaning is often packed into blackboard words to an unusually high degree. Lectures, primarily aural, are nonetheless calcified by these markings on the board; from their transcriptions students can often reconstruct entire verbal arguments. Blackboard scrawlings thus represent an extremely condensed language; no ordinary words, these can be extremely powerful in the context of memory...