Word: verbalizer
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Then I got my scores back. I did indeed land a perfect 800 in verbal, but I got a 650 in math, for a total of 1450. Worse yet, the College Board rigged the system in 1995, so my score would have been worth only 1430 in 1988. My brain had deteriorated nearly 5%, which is all you really use of your brain anyway. So really, more like 100%. You can see why I struggled on the math section...
...hoped, I breezed through the verbal section, in which the hardest vocabulary word was "megalomania," which I had no trouble whatsoever defining. And the math section, which I had feared, didn't have any tangents or cosines and gave you all the geometry formulas you needed. I never even had to go to my third No. 2 pencil. I felt far more confident than the first time around, when I actually...
...cover of TIME magazine in April, "Peanuts" was embraced as the embodiment of the fundamental wisdom of the day. The strip and its characters had gone from being a campus phenomenon in the late 1950s to a mainstream cultural powerhouse. Throughout the '60s and early '70s, the visual and verbal vocabulary of the strip was one of the only languages that kept both the younger and older generation fluent with each other. Schulz's phrase "security blanket," and his ideas about that most American of concepts, happiness, found their way into Webster's dictionary and "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations...
...descriptions have none of those elongated pronunciations he's prone to; he serves up none of the verbal jambalaya he's known for on the stump. His accent has no thickener the way it might if he were trying to give the Disney version of the tour. And he doesn't go the other way either, trotting out 10[cent]words like sylvan or making wide detours to talk about Teddy Roosevelt. His voice is easy. Meanwhile, the recount continues...
...these economic times, the only man with prophet status is Greenspan himself, and his verbal powers apply only to the markets (and even then not as much as they used to). As for the larger economy, one of the bones of contention between Greenspan and the first Bush was that Bush's Treasury people thought the Fed chairman should be jawboning the economy, and Greenspan thought that was silly, and it's doubtful Father Greenback is worried about young Mr. Bush making the recession happen with a few holiday hints about being prepared for the worst...