Word: verbalization
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...falling every year since 1962, and the new figures-based on last year's tests taken by 1 million high school students-show that the trend is continuing (TIME, Dec. 31, 1973). Over the past twelve years the average score has dropped from 478 to 440 on the verbal test and from 502 to 478 on the mathematics test. Highest possible score...
...whizzing bullets, may be verbal in the modern era, and the scores of orphans and widows may be only the one-night creations of color TV sets and Curt Gowdy, but the internecine struggle in the hollows and west into the flatlands will nonetheless maintain its fiery pitch...
...PHILADELPHIA, Melvoin's specialty is the rapid-fire repartee. Rubin and O'Donnell are a brilliant duo when let loose. And in a word-spitting duel like the Questions Game (where each must retort with a question), the verbal fireworks are dazzling. Chris Minkowski, a properly regal Claudius, looks like he's still savoring his triumph as last fall's production of Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound. The mimed deaths of the Tragedians, choreography by David Fechtor, resemble the last writhing gasps of fish drowning in air, and coordinate well with the heavy rope-netting...
...member of a flight crew, released him on $5,000 bail, and ordered him to stay in Denver. Police may now regret that decision. Upon his release, the grounded writer ran straight into a minor altercation at a coffee shop, then was arrested again for directing "filthy language and verbal abuse" at an escort-service receptionist. If Wexler ever gets out of Denver, it just may be on foot...
...attempt to restore the meaning to words, to prove that "good prose is like a window pane." "One ought to recognize," he wrote, "that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal...