Word: verbalization
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...situation became more significant when seven current and former security guards said last spring they were harassed by their superiors. The alleged harassment included verbal abuse, unusually close monitoring during shifts, and retaliation for complaints...
...made lewd gestures, she regrets her decision. "Anita Hill would have given me the confidence to take this all the way to court," she says. Other plaintiffs have found that the hearings helped give them credibility. Former steelworker Cindy Chrisulis says that before the hearings, her charges of verbal abuse against a co-worker in Loraine, Ohio, were dismissed by both her company and her union as "his word against mine." Since the hearings, several people have backed up her story. "I am Anita Hill," she says. "Different circumstances, but the same hopelessness, the same isolation...
...means everything. And Walcott's language has evolved from his early, rather stilted imitations of English poets into an instrument of marvelous flexibility: capable of grand, sweeping imagery but also of harsh interruptions and interjections, slang, pidgin and Creole patois and subtle Caribbean syncopations. The combined effect is a verbal radiance, of scenes illuminated by "a moon so bright / you can read palms...
...completely unreasonable to expect that Blacks and Hispanics be proportionally represented at America's highly selective academic institutions. In the 1989 edition of profiles of College Bound Seniors, the College Entrance Examination Board reported that in 1988 fewer than 116 Blacks scored over 699 on the verbal SAT, and fewer than 342 scored over 699 on the math section. Fewer than 3000 Black students scored over 599 on either section, not nearly enough to give Blacks proportional representation at elite colleges nationwide. In 1988 Berkeley alone accepted over 800 Blacks as part of the class...
Bits of praise and verbal applause, Riveting, powerful, a tour de force, something of which to take note. In New York this summer, how was the culturally conscious student to discriminate amongst the multitude of "must sees" and "should not misses" that line the entertainment pages of magazines and fill the Broadway sky lights...