Word: verbalization
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...Ready! students say their teachers' attitudes made the learning experience fun. Each teacher scored at least 700 on the math or verbal section he or she taught in 45 minute sessions at Get Ready...
...that definition hinged upon specifics of who touched what and what went where, Starr will need to spell out just those things. That was apparently why he secretly called Lewinsky back to his offices on Aug. 26 for two hours of wrap-up questioning so explicit it was the verbal equivalent of a cavity search. The questions involved such intimate specifics that Starr arranged for all lawyers and stenographers in the room to be women...
...surprised by all this? I was. Clinton has usually been equal to the moment. He has never been eloquent, merely verbal, and he has never--how to put it?--stunned us with his brilliance. But he has often been shrewd, and he has always shown the skills of the survivor. He has always, too, acted the public part of the presidency with ease and burly vanity. The other night on TV I saw a videotape of Clinton walking along the White House lawn, his hands clasped thoughtfully behind his back, his face a shaded mask of contemplation. In physical attitude...
Feelings have been missing from recent discussions of race--real feelings, I mean, not the verbal position papers of professional ranters. Since the days of "black and white together" (who sings that anymore?), race talk has descended to bloviations of theories, bigotries and blame, especially blame. Once we thought it would be simple. Thurgood Marshall predicted the end to all school segregation within five years of Brown v. Board of Education. Now we live with thwarted expectations and the sort of intellectual meanness that goes with disappointed hopes. Integration, the best idea this country ever had, dares not speak...
...indicated that sarin was "available" and offered what CNN took to be a confirmation that the deadly gas was used. He now says that he never had any direct knowledge that sarin was used, never meant to confirm its use and only heard about it later through "rumors" or "verbal statements...