Word: verbalism
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...study found that freshmen at black colleges had lower SAT verbal scores than the national freshman average (336 vs. 474). But black colleges point out that for many of their applicants it is not a case of which college they pick, but whether they can go at all. The aim of the colleges is to move students along so that, by graduation, they have caught up with the rest of the country. Says Tuskegee Dean Walter Sapp: "Yes, we create an atmosphere where a student can play catchup, but we also have people in graduate schools all around the nation...
Once again the union and government seemed to be tottering on the brink of a showdown. If Solidarity leaders pursued their political demands, the authorities, urged on by the Kremlin, might have little choice but to move against them. But the bitter verbal attacks from Moscow and Warsaw made it difficult for union leaders to back down without losing face-and possibly weakening their control over Solidarity's 9.5 million rank-and-file members. Said Solidarity Spokesman Janusz Onyszkiewicz: "There is enough fuel now to start up everybody...
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Despite Abt's promise--delivered in writing to each delegate--that she was "deeply committed to the protection of low-and moderate-income tenants," and despite a verbal pledge to "never" vote against rent control, many tenants at the convention said they found Abt's stand shaky...
...fresh verbal raiment with which to costume...