Word: verbalism
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...Italian "V" word that - more or less - corresponds with the English "F" word. Italy's top court ruled on Tuesday that "though representative of obscene concepts [and] of a sexual nature," that world-renowned 10-letter word is merely a "vulgar manifestation of irritation." The ruling overturned a verbal abuse conviction of a 60-year-old local politician in the central town of Aquila who had directed the expression at a political rival during a 1999 city council meeting...
...comment might have been written off as one of Nagin's many verbal missteps. But in the months that followed, the warnings turned out in many cases to be true, even as the city's rebuilding effort languished, infrastructure repairs limped along, the state reimbursement program for damaged homes faltered and the New Orleans' infamous crime rate made a sickening comeback...
...Knocked Up, the camaraderie is mainly comic. Guys topping guys - men amusing themselves and one another by competing in a kind of verbal bowling tournament - is as old as the Friars Club, as familiar as The Man Show (actually a favorite of mine, in its early Comedy Central years), as intense and obscene as The Aristocrats. It's also the ribald companionship of the sitcom writing room, a basically male preserve where the scribes often engage in sexually explicit jokes about the show's cast, as an assistant copies it all down. (In 1999 one such assistant, Amaani Lyle...
...complete set of notes on the first day of class. The dismaying result: a handful of students complained that I was lecturing straight from my lecture notes! I was outraged, but the students were foreshadowing a conclusion I would only reach many years later: education is not the verbal presentation of information that is readily available in other forms...
...Tuchman Hall D to take report of an assault. The reporting party said they got into an argument with an individual and that they were slapped on the wrist and struck in the face with a plastic cup.May 6:2:37 p.m.: Officers responded to a report of a verbal altercation between two individuals. The reporting person stated that someone they did not want to see had followed them after repeated efforts to break off contact and had grabbed the individual’s bag and wrist. Officers arrested Xuefeng Sue, age 34, of Boston and issued a trespass warning...